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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <65774@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 01:21:11 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Sep12.132520.7820@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <65745@cup.portal.com>
- <1992Sep13.064017.13800@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- >In article <65745@cup.portal.com> Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barn
- e
- >s) writes:
- >>
- >> Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
- >>that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
- >>will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{
- >
- > Paula is the same. However, your assumption about the disk drives is not
- >correct - the A4000 has 1.76MB drives, which can read MS-DOS 1.44MB disks.
- >That's why Workbench 3.0 has CrossDOS built in. :-)
- >
-
- Yes, we can read 1.44M floppies, but at the normal slow speed. As for the
- reading speed, in the current high density mode, the drive spins at half
- speed, reading the data at the same slow speed. On normal HD drives, the
- speed stays the same and the data is read twice as fast.
-
- >
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) BIX: ggiles
- >All opinions expressed are my own. Internet: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
-
- -Joel
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