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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: IBM floppy drives on AMigas
- Message-ID: <34628@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 02:39:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.032141.20914@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 24
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- ezanto@mail1.cis.umn.edu (Eric Michael Zanto) writes:
- >
- >I have a Toshiba 3.5" floppy drive and was wondering what I can do to get it to work on my Amiga. Is it possible to do such a thing?
-
- I'm assuming it's a 3.5" 1MB floppy (720K IBM format).
-
- It may be possible to get it to work as a second internal drive. To
- make it work as an external drive requires "ID" circuitry to identify it to
- the system. The Hardware manual has that info. Also, double-check all the
- pinouts, though they're probably the same.
-
- If you do hook it up, there's no guarantee it will work, since drives
- do vary and we have to qualify models to make sure they meet our specs, but
- it probably will. The one thing that may not work is the disk removal
- detection circuitry. This will probably require using "diskchange" to tell the
- system a disk has been removed or inserted.
-
- --
- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-