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- From: jyardley@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Yardley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD Floppy Drive - FB-357 ??
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 12:29:46 -0700
- Organization: Tantric Lobotomy Commission
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- In article <4gaaac$5if@spacenns.space.honeywell.com>,
- Brian Heyboer <bjheyboer@space.honeywell.com> wrote:
- >In article <4g74bt$5li@pacifica.access.ch> Peter Balmer <pbalmer@access.ch>
- >writes:
- >
- >
- >>I installed recently a HD floppy drive into my A2000 with 0S 3.1.
- >>Unfortunately I cannot use it to format HD Disks. Do I have to install
- >>a special driver or how can I do it?
- >
- >Assuming this i9s an Amiga HD drive, I would guess you installed it as DF1:.
- >If that is the case, it needs to be installed with the motherboard jumper set
- >for NO DF1:. That disables the on-board auto-ID circuit (which will ID the
- >drive as DD) and allows the on-drive circuit to properly ID the drive as HD.
-
- Will this work with a FB-357 Chinon? (I got it with a 286 BB, it was
- used on that.) It's not the 357A or B or whatever, just 357. If it will
- work, is there a driver or mountlist entry I need to use since the
- auto-ID is disabled. And, finally, if it is not plug-in compatible, is
- there a hack (even un ugly one like adding another index pulse to slow
- the drive) to do it? I'd even be willing to sacrifice DD capability on
- that drive, as long as df0: still works normally.
-
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