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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
- Message-ID: <64962@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 17:37:54 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug18.041440.22414@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- <1992Aug21.044831.27211@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- <1992Aug23.194527.14813@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <64541@cup.portal.com>
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- >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
- >
-
- But you aren't... or weren't. The Amiga _HD_ dirve is NOT a standard IBM type
- drive with disk change detect. Sheesh, how many times do we need to go
- around and around about this. The Amiga needs a HD floppy to go HALF SPEED.
- It IS a special drive. You are thinking of a normal density Amiga drive and
- normal density IBM drive.
-
- -Joel
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