| From: | tesla |
| Date: | 10 May 2000 at 09:22:07 |
| Subject: | Re: Hi-density Floppy |
David:
Everything you mentioned had already been considered/tried by me. Thanks
though, for the great reply, you had some great answers.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Oakes" <doakes@accesswave.ca>
To: "tesla" <amigaOS3_5@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [amigaOS3_5] Hi-density Floppy
> tesla said to amigaOS3_5:
>
> >I have been having a continuing problem with my A 3000 Tower. It has
> >a standard floppy, (880K) and a Hi density floppy, (1.76.)
>
> Are you absolutely sure that it has a high density floppy? Is this
> floppy one of the Chinon drives supplied as OEM by C= or one from
> another source (such as the one from Power Computing)?
>
> Has the drive ever worked as a HD floppy drive? It is possible that
> the HD floppy recognition hardware within the drive has failed.
>
> >The problem is getting the system to recognize the hi density floppy
> >as a
> >1.76. It works fine as a 880k, but I would like to occasionally use
> >it in the hi density mode. Since i've checked just about everything
> >that could go wrong electrically, (including bad connections, bad
> >ribbon cable, changing floppy connection order, etc, I think it must
> >be that 3.5 is not configured correctly. Any thought's on where to
> >check it?
>
> If the drive is a Chinon FZ-357A, then it should be automatically
> recognizing HD floppies. If it is one of the after market drives, it
> probably requires some sort of driver file, possibly installed in
> expansion, though the disk/manual that should have come with the drive
> in that case would have complete installation instructions in it.
>
> There is nowhere within the OS to configure a HD drive for Amiga
> modes. Special HD DOSDrivers are necessary for CrossDOS and other
> disk filesystems (MFS, SFS, PFS, diskspare, etc) however.
>
> OTOH, make sure that there is *not* a driver for DF0 in
> DEVS:DOSDrivers/ and that the internal HD floppy is installed as DF0,
> not DF1. The Amiga hardware autorecognizes a single HD floppy drive
> installed as DF0. You didn't mention having checked the jumper(s) on
> the back of the drive. It should be set for DS0.
>
> And now for the stupid question: Are you using HD floppy disks when
> trying to use it in HD mode? Those are the ones with the extra hole
> on the corner opposite the write protect tab.
>
> I hope that something here helps...
>
>
>
>
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