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- From: mr.cool@pro-fla.cts.com (German Leparc)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Floppy Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.041755.12923@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 04:17:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: crash.1992Jul21.041755.12923
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- Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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- Lunatic said:
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- ][nteresting notes: The Amiga uses MFM encoding, but stores 880K
- on normal 3.5" disks. According to my Amiga-owning friend, it does
- this by "changing the cylinders" (perhaps storing 11 tracks where 9
- are stored by MS-DOS? This would makes sense with the above info:
- 9 tracks * 80K/track = 720K, 10 tracks * 80K/track = 800K,
- 11 tracks * 80K/track = 880K.) I wonder how reliable their 880K
- disks are? Apparently, there is no standard Amiga High Density format.
- ___
- |he Atari ST uses MFM encoding to store 720K (360K with older one
- sided drives) in a modified MS-DOS format.
-
- ][ don't seem to hear anyone clamoring for Amiga and Atari ST
- FSTs....
-
- Mr.Cool:
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- The Amiga 880k disks are reliable, but can be a little tricky at times,
- it does NOT forgive you for removing the disk while the drive light is on,
- some other computers let you get away with that sometimes, but the Amiga
- will always screw the disk
-
- There are programs called Dos to Dos and Cross Dos that allow the
- Amiga
- to read IBM 720k disks and Atari ST 720k disks. It works really well
-
-
- Who says we don't need Amiga FSTs... forget Atari... an Amiga FSTs
- would be great, especially for mods. I would like it, since it would make
- life easier for me, rather than having to d/l my amiga files on my //gs ( I
- know, I could hook up the modem to the amiga, but I like using the //gs),
- then port them to IBM disks with my PCT and then port them into AmigaDOS
- with Dos to Dos.
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