| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 18 May 2000 at 09:09:19 |
| Subject: | Re: Hi-Density Floppy Drive |
On 18-May-00, Michael Rozeboom wrote:
>> DL Question 1: Can I use a Chinon FG-357 drive in an Amiga?
>
> No, you need an FG-357A. Hard to find. You would be better off with an
> external drive, which usually has a small PCB between the drive and
> the interface, that the Amiga thinks is a DD. The Power XL drive I
> have does this, and uses a Sony mechanism.
>
> (I have a Chinon FG-357 HD floppy drive, and I know it won't work in
> an Amiga as a HD drive,)
>
> You could modify the drive to spin at half speed in HD mode (Aminet
> has instructions), but you will likely experience "poor interchange"
> with other drives.
The Catweasel works well in the A2000, with almost any standard PC
floppy running at full speed. The half-speed trick used in the A4000 can
result in badly written disks.
The limitation of the Catweasel is that you can't boot off the drive -
you still need a normal Amiga df0: for that.
The advantage is that it can read almost any type of disk, even old Mac
floppies or Amiga 880k floppies, neither of which can be read by the
same drive in a PC.
Regards
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