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- From: bdonison@cookie.UVic.CA (Only AMIGA!)
- Subject: Re: Correct, Not Correct, Correct, NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.070633.23091@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <64541@cup.portal.com> <1992Aug24.152116.20598@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <64736@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 07:06:33 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <64736@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
- >>In article <64541@cup.portal.com> Avi@cup.portal.com (Avi - Schwartz) writes:
- >>>>Doing my best not to sound like Marc here, but just when I thought the
- >>>>addition of the 1.44 drive (well, 2.0M to be exact) to the A3000T was a
- >>>>thoughtful upgrading of technology, I learned that in most cases it is
- >>>>now cheaper to source 1.44 drives than 720K drives, simply due to the
- >>>>greater demand. I wouldn't doubt that they start showing up in A500s
- >>>>and A600s sometime soon...
- >>>>
- >>>>- Dave
- >>>>
- >>>
- >>>You would have been correct if you were talking about PC type HD floppy
- >>>drives. Unfortunately the Amiga HD floppy drives are not standard ones
- >>>and therefore are possibly a lot more expensive.
- >>
- >>And I still would have been correct (and I was). MS-DOS drives work just
- >>lovely in Amigas, thank-you, as long as they have the proper disk change
- >>logic (certain brands do, certain ones don't). I got desperate and had a
- >>Fujitsu 1.44 in mine for a long time (as an 880K of course).
- >>
- >>- Dave
- >>
- >
- >Yes, PC-type HD drives do work in Amigas as 880k drives BUT the HD drives
- >showing up in 3000s that function as HD drives are NOT PC-type HD drives!
- >So, Marc (er... Dave), CBM did actually have to RESEARCH and DEVELOP a
- >way to get an HD drive to function as an HD drive in an Amiga, which I
- >think is a thoughtful upgrade of technology.
- >
- >Don DeCosta |The nice thing about sanity is| VM/Nomad2
- >DonD@cup.portal.com |you can lose it more than once| Amiga/Imagine
-
- PC HD drives are great. The speed is controled via software so they can
- even read/write Mac floppies. At least the ones that actually folow the
- standard and not just faking it with their own BIOS. And they are cheep!
- It would have been nice if the new Amiga HD drives were PC HD drives
- with different controlers set at the correct speeds for 880K and 1.76K,
- then someone could write a DOS driver for them.
-
- Why must Commodore always be different at the expense of compatability?
- (well not always, but I feel like that right now)
-
- Brad...
-
-