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From comp.sys.amiga.hardware Sat Jun 27 02:19:58 1992
Path: cs.tu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uunet!wupost!tulane!ukma!widener!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: amiga high density floppy drives
Message-ID: <32553@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jun 92 21:14:30 GMT
References: <3928@winnie.fit.edu> <1992Jun19.173145.23082@blkbox> <32545@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 19
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>Again, are these capabilties present in KS/DOS 2.04?
>
>Support for this kind of floppy is supposed to be in the 2.04 trackdisk.device
>(haven't used one byself, but I gather it's there).
It's in there. There is one bug that is fixed by a PD program and
a future SetPatch. If you go high->low->high, you can no longer safely write
to high density disks. low->high is ok, and high->low, but not high->low->
high. (A buffer isn't being reset to empty MFM values.)
--
A Novice asked the master: "What is the true meaning of programming?" The
master replied: "Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired, program
when the moment is right." - The Zen of Programming
-
Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.