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- From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Mag Opt Drive on A3000: suggestions
- Message-ID: <lmb1reINN7uc@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:48:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.104005.5291@learnlink.emory.edu> <eunms*M11@prolix.apana.org.au>
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan22.104005.5291@learnlink.emory.edu>, Sean P. Murphy writes:
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- >> I can't give you much information, but I have tried to get a Pinnacle
- >> REO-650 MO drive to run on my 3000 with no luck. MO drives apparently use
- >> non-standard block sizes (2048k?) and the only way I know of to access them
- >> would be with a CD-ROM filesystem (no-writes) or with a custom one. If
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- >If anyone knows the answer to this, or any other MO connectivity questions
- >with regards to the Amiga, would they PLEASE put up their answer publicly
- >in this newsgroup. There is no available information on interfacing MO
- >drives to the Amiga, and I'd like to know other people's opinions.
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- In recent AmigaWorld GVP ads, there is a MO drive for sale. Presumably
- at least GVP has a driver for this type of device. Part of the ad says
- that it is transparent to AmigaDOS.
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- Lee
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