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- Subject: Re: Amiga WALKER (new slot-box)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- References: <4htb8a$ng0@rock101.genie.net>
- <1545.6644T1130T2959@netspace.net.au> <4ibkm5$pk9@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
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- Path: tharkad.aball.de!news
- From: "Harald Fricke" <fricke@tharkad.aball.de>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:33:10 MET
- Message-ID: <170396t1833@tharkad.aball.de>
-
- In article <4ibkm5$pk9@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>, Shaun C. Murray (scm@mfltd.co.uk) wrote:
- > In article <1545.6644T1130T2959@netspace.net.au>, astroboy@netspace.net.au
- > says...
- > >
- > >
- > >>3. PC HD Floppy controller, so we get high-density back.
- > >
- > >? How does this work? It certainly couldn't cope with 1.76Mb floppy disks?
- >
- > Personally I don't care one jot if it supports 1.76Mb Amiga disks. All the
- > software you can get comes on 880Kb disks. As long as it still supports that
- > it's fine by me. I do require 1.44Mb PC disk compatibility as it makes
- > transferring stuff between PC's and Macs easy.
- >
- (...)
- If it cannot do 1.76MB, it is unlikely that it will do 880 Kb either.
- The problem of track read vs. sector read remains. I also wonder how a
- stock PC floppy controller will be able to do the 'custom' Amiga MFM
- encoding scheme.
-
- - Harald
-