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Article #11498Re: 1.2 Meg Floppy and the Amiga
From: Donald A Kassebaum
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1989 15:21
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1989 15:21
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96 track per inch drives are 80 track devices. Many of these drives will work at 720k or 1.2m. They get 720k when run at 300 rpm and the standard 250k bit rate. They will get 1.2m when run at 360 rpm and a 500k bit rate. The amiga can only handle the 250k bit rate and would get 880k when run at 300 rpm. The amiga would not hold as much data if run at 360 rpm. Try playing around with the mount list to get 80 tracks. I have built a 5.25 floppy drive with autoconfig and diskchange. The amiga can't tell the difference. I have been working on an article, but haven't found an universal way to do diskchange. Any ideas? If anyone is interested, send me mail. Enough interested may get a usenet post. Dak
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!dak From: dak@ut-emx.UUCP (Donald A Kassebaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.2 Meg Floppy and the Amiga Summary: 1.2 Meg Floppy Message-ID: <10585@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 89 15:21:35 GMT References: <876@ur-cc.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 17