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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!scarrow!root
- From: root@uunet!scarrow (Superuser)
- Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon
- Organization: TCI
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:35:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.053538.22848@uunet!scarrow>
- In-Reply-To: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com's message of Sun, 20 Dec 92 00:57:57 PST
- References: <A59959@HB.maus.de> <A45838@K.maus.de> <72073@cup.portal.com>
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- Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: <72073@cup.portal.com>
- >j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
- >>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
- >
- >How about $300 as a reason..?
- >
-
- While I don't have a schematic for the Falcon, I assume it still uses a Floppy
- Controller Chip and still has the Yamaha chip. If this is the case, is there
- reason a person couldn't just daisy chain one in to the 34 pin cable that goes
- to the internal floppy drive?
-
- Even if they didn't run the trace from the Yamaha for DS1 (vs. DS0), you could
- always run one with a wire.
-
- I am assuming that they didn't pull the same trick they did with the XL/XE
- (concerning Joystick ports 3 & 4 and that "extra" 16K of RAM). The XBIOS and
- thus GEM probably would still support it just fine, and if it don't, it's in
- RAM on the Falcon (loaded in from Disk), so thats no problem.
-
- Next subject: The LAN connector.
-
- Does anybody know how to put Ether-Net on a Falcon? (So it can be connected
- to my Unix Box?) I've never heard of "Local-Talk" before, and I don't own a
- Mac.
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