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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Re: How do I replace my AMiga drive with an IBM 1?
- Message-ID: <63036@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 22:09:22 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >OK. The HD Floppy thread refuses to die...
- >
- >About six months ago my friend bought a second internal floppy for his A3000
- >through the local dealer - cost about A$160. When I heard about the new
- >HD floppy drives we checked his out and found that it did indeed support HD
- >disks. Now with advent of Amax 2.5 with support for Mac HD disks I decided
- >that I would have to get one of these drives. I got the part number of my
- >friends disk drive and contacted the local dealer and asked them to get a
- >price. They came back and said that Commodore said something like
- >"We know what you are up to asking for a FD-357 and you can't have one"
- >although two days later someone else from the dealer called to say that
- >Commodore claimed that an FD-357 was a PC disk drive and $190.
-
- First off, my drives HD drives are FD-357A, not FD-357.
-
- >
- >After all this I decided that the Commodore drive can't be too different from
- >the normal PC drive so I bought a 1.44MB 3.5 from a local pc parts dealer
- >(A$76!!). I had to solder in an extra wire to get the disk change line to
- >work properly. I have not been able to get the Amiga to recognise the drive
- >as a HD drive. I see from the include files that trackdisk.device is capable
- >of recognising a "3.5 inch 150 RPM" drive. Does anyone know what signals the
- >Commodore drive sets to indicate a HD drive/disk or should I just go back to
- >trying to get a drive from Commodore?
- >
- >Regards,
- >
- >Paul
- >
- >--
- >Paul Wilkinson | "With OS/2's multi-tasking my 8Mb 486 can format two
- >u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au | floppy disks and run WinWord at the same time!"
- > | Reviewer in Computerworld.
- > | Has he heard of the Amiga?
- >
-
- I believe the PC HD drives go twice the RPM that the Amiga can use.
- That's the special thing about these Amiga HD drives, the go half the speed
- of the PC HD drives.
-
- -Joel
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