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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: I must find a way to read HD IBM disks!
- Message-ID: <37966@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 20:21:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.224201.62048@cc.usu.edu> <BzBpsA.AtL@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 31
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- In article <BzBpsA.AtL@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
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- > Commodore sells new Amiga HD floppy drives, but they are double-height,
- >will not fit into most Amigas, are expensive, and in short supply (if they are
- >available as upgrades at all).
-
- I think we can at least can the revisionist history here. The C= drives (made
- as a custom item for C= by Chinon) are standard height 3.5" drives, rather
- than the half-height (25mm or less) required by the A1200. These will fit
- in most Amigas, though you have to get a different version for the A3000 since
- you'll need one that'll fit into the A3000's molded bezel. A4000, A2000, and
- A500, and A1000 all work with the normal drive, sans bezel in the last two
- cases.
-
- The 20MB floptical isn't a bad alternative. If you're going to buy a C= priced
- replacement drive, you might get the 20MB for little more than twice the price
- from a discount house. Of course, you'll need a SCSI drive, and not all the
- flopticals have firmware that understands the Amiga format. Any drive that can
- do a raw disk read can support the Amiga format, since it's basically a full
- track version of the IBM format as far as the low-level code is concerned.
- However, such a low-level approach would require a new device driver that
- works via SCSI direct. If the drive knows Amiga, it can work via normal SCSI
- device.
-
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