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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Reply to Matt (floptical)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.121046.12073@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:10:46 GMT
- References: <18NOV92.08563151@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- In article <18NOV92.08563151@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>, csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
- > Flopticals plug right into any machine with a SCSI port; like the TT. If
- > you have a DMA port (like any ST/STE), then you need the ICD LINK DMA-SCSI
- > cable. With the LINK cable, just plug in the floptical to you hard disk
- > port, boot with the ICD driver that comes with the LINK and that's it.
- > You now have a 21 meg floptical that, as far as your computer is concerned,
- > is a hard disk! In addition to the 21 meg disks, the floptical reads 720K
- > and 1.44 meg floppies. One problem, if you have TOS 1.2 or less, programs
- > will not run from the floptical.
-
- So how do I find out what version of TOS I have? I suspect it could be less
- that 1.2....it's a pretty old MEGA ST4.
-
- What would I have to do to upgrade, if need-be?
-
- -Matt
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