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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Falcon & external floppy (was: Comparisons)
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:17:39 +0100
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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- References: <1992Dec12.231159.7126@u.washington.edu> <Bz6I6J.9M4@unix.amherst.edu> <Bz6vFJ.18v@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Dec13.162843.7658@solace.hsh.se> <1992Dec15.013422.8563@bnr.ca>
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- In <1992Dec15.013422.8563@bnr.ca> bjgrier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes:
-
- >> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
-
- >It sure does support an external floppy, the floptical SCSI drive
- >can read 720K, 1.4meg, and 21meg disks. The 720K, and 1.4meg disks
- >can be interchanged with any PC 720k or 1.4meg disk. According to
- >Howard at ICD it works on the F030.
-
- I guess by "the Falcon does not support external floppies" it was
- meant that you can't plug in any external disk drives like you
- can with an ST or TT. It seems safe to say that much. What is
- interesting to me in this context is, will it be possible to do
- some soldering to add a port for an external non-SCSI floppy
- drive to the falcon, and the OS will be able to deal with it
- without modification? Or have they taken out the dispatchers and
- routines for dealing with two physical floppy drives, reasoning
- there won't be two floppies on the Falcon anyway?
-
- Greetinx and thanx in advance for enlightening me,
-
- Jan
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