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- From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Double Density on the Draco
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 16:48:43 +0100
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- Benjamin Hutchings wrote:
- >
- > Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- > : I have good hopes that the newer Amigas to be revealed in March will have
- > : this fixed. All in time. My question is, will this new setup with the
- > : standard PC High Density floppies be able to auto-detect disks on the Amiga
- > : still, or will we lost that feature? Other than the 'clicking' which can
- > : be turned off, this feature is unique and helpful (I believe) on the Amiga!
- >
- > Nope, it is not unique. The Mac does this and so do many Unix workstations.
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- The HP workstations I have access to (9000/715+735) don't detect disk
- changes.
-
- > Even PCs can do it now - look at MSBackup as supplied with MS-DOS 6.x. I
- > think Windows 95 detects disk changes as well.
-
- A friend of mine recently bought a new PC. He runs Window95 and it
- doesn't detect disk changes either.
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