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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD Floppy Drive
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:43:13 GMT
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- Peter Balmer (pbalmer@access.ch) wrote:
- : 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?
-
- It depends. What kind of HD drive is it?
-
- If it's a Chinon FB or FZ-357A, it should simply work
- If it's a Power Computing, it needs a patch and a buffer PCB
- If it's a standard HD drive, it won't work in HD mode.
-
- : If I chose format on the WB I have only the option to format the disk
- : as normal with 880K.
-
- Did you put in the HD disk? It won't show the 1760 option unless a real
- HD disk is in the drive.
-
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