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- Path: news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!leek
- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 20:31:17 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <96006.203117LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- References: <4ckgd8$6tg@natasha.rmii.com> <4cljq4$cvf@alterdial.UU.NET>
-
- In article <4cljq4$cvf@alterdial.UU.NET>, chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- says:
- >
- >I think that AT could put DF0: to the floppy port, loose the floppy drive,
-
- I did that long ago to my A1000. I re-routed it to one of the ground
- pins. Since the output is open collector - it won't have problems
- with unmodified Amigas. An internal HD & external floppy makes
- so much sense. The floppy drive didn't get as much does as before
- as air is no longer sucked through the drive.
-
- >Amigas, they should replace the complex floppy controller circuits with
- >a SCSI to floppy adapter.
-
- Forget about the SCSI->floppy interface. It is excessive hardware.
- I would rather have the Super IO chip that they have in clones - 2 high
- speed serial ports, 1 EPP/ECP parallel port, IDE port, amd a real floppy
- drive interface. No complain with that.
-
- >This one mistake C= made with the CD32. They should have included a hard
- >drive controller and put a floppy connector on it.
-
- They didn't have the floppy control lines on it for cost reasons. :(
- On the other hand, they don't have any excuses not to have an IDE
- interface as it would cost them like a couple of bucks at most.
-
- >Chris Hall
-
- K. C. Lee
-