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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, I was wrong AT! NOT !!
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 08:51:55 GMT
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- Michael Metz (mimetz@amiga.de) wrote:
-
- : Thanx.. this all is correct!
- : because the redesign of the PAULA will take a while, we are
- : investigating in _every_ scematics we find to run HD on the AMIGA
- : again... but this takes some time as well.
-
- Have you considered making a SCSI2Floppy adapter and a rewritten
- trackdisk.device? It's only draw back is that some badly programmed games
- wouldn't work. If AT were to leave the old floppy connector in the
- machine and give detailed instructions on how to switch the drive to the
- old drive connector and switch the drive to 880k mode for compatiblity.
- It might be possible to do a automatic switch but it would be more costly.
-
- With the right floppy drive controller chip and a rewrite to the
- trackdisk.device, it should be possible to support standard Amiga
- formatted floppies. The SCSI2Floppy adapter could be retrofited to older
- Amigas with a SCSI port.
-
- Has AT seriously thought about just going with CDROM drives, hard drives
- and make the floppy optional? Third party developers have already solved
- the problem so it would be a lot less headache on people at AT.
-
- Also, could you pass a suggestion along? To add a system check to see
- if DF0: exists before it's mounted at bootup. Right now if you remove the
- floppy drive for some reason and boot the system, it shows up as a bad
- disk.
-
-
- Chris Hall
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