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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Downgrade the Amiga High Density standard
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 01:48:10 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4g0noq$895@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4ej2ve$pul@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4enarpINNnfj@maz4.sma.ch> <2539.6617T962T704@globalxs.nl>
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- Summary: Standard PC disks.
-
- In article <2539.6617T962T704@globalxs.nl>,
- NetMan <otterleo@globalxs.nl> wrote:
- >Valerio Ortelli orv@sma.ch wrote :
-
- >>If now the Amiga standards drop again to DD there will remain a lot of
- >>compatibility inside Amiga anyway. In few months the 1.44 disks will become
- >>the new standard for Amiga, with the DD 880 just for compatibility.
- >
- >>90% I use my drive to transfer data between Amiga and Unix, using ms-dos
- >>disks. Of course we will loose something for a while, but I think it's the
- >>right way.
- >
- >Using PC 1.44MB drives give a data loss (compared to Amiga 1.76MB) of :
- >
- >1760KB - 1440KB = 320KB
- >
- >It's not that much on a HardDisk, but it's much on a floppy (18% of an Amiga
- >HD-floppy and 22% of a PC HD-floppy).
- >
- >Do we want to loose that ???
-
- Not really but did the 1.76MB "standard" really catch on and is it worth
- the extra cost? Don't get me wrong, the Amiga has always been about
- improving on things, losing what we are ahead in isn't good but when you
- look at the floppy being obsolete soon (in a few years) then this
- wouldn't matter.
-
- >It must be possible to make a PC 1.44MB Drive read and write Amiga 1.76MB
- >floppies...I read something about it on the Aminet ! AT just need to make
- >some kind of interface then...
-
- Sell it to the people who want it if done, otherwise use the cheaper but
- lower spaced standard PC drive.
-
- >My KCS DHD-Drive (Dual High Density Drive from Kolff Computer Supplies in The
- >Netherlands) has 2 NEC FD1138H HD-Drives inside (aren't they PC-Drives ?)...
- >These drives read/write DD & HD PC-floppies, DD & HD Amiga-floppies and
- >furthermore they can read/write a maximum of 2009KB on a HD-floppy...
- >And they are VERY SILENT !
-
- Do NEC still make them though?
-
- >Using 1.44MB drives and floppies as the standard Amiga drives and floppies
- >just because they're cheaper is a stupid thing to say !
- >If the price was the most important, then you would have probably bought a PC
- >(the question is of that would have been cheaper though...) instead of your
- >Amiga !?
-
- True.
-
- >1.44MB Floppy-drives existed before Commodore set the 1.76MB standard...Why
- >didn't they choose the 1.44MB as standard then ? They probably wanted the
- >best available and set 1.76MB as standard !
-
- Yes but Escom has been known to use cheaper and less quality
- products in their computers, obviously AT is following suit.
-
- >No, I hope it doesn't come this far, the Amiga-Filesystem is one of the things
- >we're proud of, so please don't let it disappear !!
-
- If there was some way to use the cheaper drives but get the same space
- without a too expensive add-on or none at all it would be great.
-
- >If AT is going to downgrade the Amiga, then it would be *very* stupid !!
-
- We could possibly take a downgrade to make things cheap with the hopes
- they go back at setting their own higher standards in the future.
-
- >PS. I wouldn't mind if AT included the 1.44MB-standard as an EXTRA, next to
- > the 880/1760KB-standard !
-
- I agree.
-
- >Greetings,
- >
- >ArlĪ
- >Student electronics
- >The Netherlands, Europe
-
- -=*George*=-
-
-
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