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- From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT Bridgeboard and Commodore 1010 drive
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Rick_Lang.00ep@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 19:13:06 PST
- Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
- Lines: 28
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- In a message dated Wed 9 Sep 92 2:50, barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott
- Barber) wrote:
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- SB> Will the Commodore 1010 external 3.5" disk drive work OK by just
- SB> plugging it right into the AT BB, like it does on the XT BB? Seems
- SB> like I've heard somewhere that there might be a problem with density
- SB> incompatibilities here, since the 1010 is not a HD drive.
-
- The A2286 does not have an external floppy drive connector like the A2088.
- That's called moving up.
-
- SB> I know that AT is capable of writing and reading HD floppies, but
- SB> can
- SB> you simply define a standard density drive for it? (in particular,
- SB> the one that plugs into the back!!)
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- The A2286 will handle low and high density 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppies.
- You can set some jumpers appropriately as described in the A2286/A2088
- manual.
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- Rick Lang AmUsers Victoria, B.C. please respond publically as I do not
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