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- From: ez13942@nyssa.swt.edu (Edwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Smart Drives and HD disks...
- Date: 21 Mar 96 17:33:59 CST
- Organization: Southwest Texas State University
- Message-ID: <1996Mar21.173359@nyssa.swt.edu>
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- What was this I read about reading HD MSDOS disks in a FD-2000 with
- LRR 128? Do I have an old copy of it or something? Mine only supports
- DD 3.5s and DD 5.25s.
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- Also, I long read, and vaguely understand, that Commodore drives are
- "smart". I understand this is due to the fact that a processor is in
- the drive, and it has it's own memory-- but how is this related to the
- alleged fact that this is what enables a 1571 and 81 to be capable of
- reading foriegn format disks (not just foreign file systems) while PC
- drives, being "dumb" (allegedly) can not. Any of you hardware hacks
- have any details on this?
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- - Bo
-