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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, I was wrong AT! NOT !!
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:37:52 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Jon Guidry (guidryjd@occ-uky.campus.mci.net) wrote:
- : In a message of <14 Feb 96 04:27:05> Maxwell Daymon (1:3803/99.0) wrote to :
- : 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).
-
- : Okay. The Paula (and whatever the chip is in the AGA machines) are unable to
-
- Paula is also in the AGA machines. AGA == Advanced GRAPHIC Architecture.
- Nothing about the sound system (Paula) was changed (other than being put
- into an SMD package).
-
- : 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? :)
-
- There's more to it. Some drive solutions use a full speed drive with a large
- buffer. A patch needs to be applied in order to properly flush and wait
- for the buffer. Some hacks are out there for slowing down a standard drive,
- but I'd be a little concerned about the reliability of such a device.
-
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