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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: I must find a way to read HD IBM disks!
- Message-ID: <37979@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:01:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.224201.62048@cc.usu.edu> <BzBpsA.AtL@news.iastate.edu> <37966@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >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.
-
- No known (to me) floptical can handle Amiga format - they all use MFM
- controllers for reading non-floptical disks, no way to read the raw bits. It's
- possible this has changed since last I looked, but I doubt it.
-
- You can use the drives, you just can't stick amiga floppies into them
- and read them (unless written by CrossDos).
-
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- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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