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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, I was wrong AT! NOT !!
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:41:57 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <1130.6624T1361T1129@netspace.net.au>
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- Jon Guidry (guidryjd@occ-uky.campus.mci.net) said:
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- MD>> This is untrue. The drive mechanism is not what makes the space
- MD>> available, it's how the Amiga formats the disk in addition to the disk
- MD>> controller reading a track at a time (no physical sector gaps).
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- >Okay. The Paula (and whatever the chip is in the AGA machines) are unable to
- >keep up with the PC 1.44 meg disk drives, correct? What's the big deal about
- >AT's new floppy drives then? There's even some patch on Aminet where you can
- >build a circuit. I have an accelerated US A1200. So, can I go out and buy a
- >PC floppy disk drive and use the patch on Aminet, or do I still have to buy
- >an Amiga-specific drive? :)
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- ATs new drives are PC HD drives jumpered to function only as DD drives.
- Please note that these will *not* work as HD drives, because Paula can't
- handle the data rate.
-
- Enough of this thread, please!
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