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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Need information on Dell HD drives
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:56:41 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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- In article <149415@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) wrote:
- >>>In article <1716.6573T742T788@insync.net>, lee@insync.net (Lee) says:
- >>>>
- >>>> Nope. It's a laptop drive. It's form factor is so small, you could
- >>>> stack
- >>
- >>>Yeap. Why not sell the drive part to a clone laptop users and modify
- >>>the cable to work with a 1" PC clone floppy drive. Afterall the magic
- >>>trix is in the cable. ;)
- >>
- >> Not really. The cable is fairly standard, as far as custom cables go. :-)
- >>It is the drive that is truly odd. I think it actually spins slower. For the
- >>laptop, that would save a lot of power...
- >>
- >> Lee
- >>
- >>*** * * * * ***
- >>* Lee Sharp *
- >>* Sharp Systems - Computer Hardware and Software Solutions *
- >>* "lee@insync.net" Hardware Upgrades & Sales (from Houston, TX) *
- >>*** * * * * ***
- >
- >If the Dell HD Floppy drive is spinning slower, then why is it that
- >SysInfo 3.24 tellsme it has exactly the same Speed/Transfer Rate
- >that my 1200's internal DD Floppy drive has?
-
- Erm, Harv, if it spun full speed for HD mode you would have to transfer data at
- twice the rate to get twice the data on the drive. That is simple arithmetic.
- The fact that the transfer rate is the same indicates that EITHER the drive's
- cable buffers things and performs a nibble mode speed conversion before talking
- to the disk or else the disk spins slower so that twice as much data can get on
- the track even though the transfer rate is unchanged.
-
- >Harv | "Do you recognize the
- >harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- >http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- >hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
-
- {o.o} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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