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Article #2675Re: replacement of 3.5 drives
From: Dana B Bourgeois
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 05:37
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 05:37
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[line eater food] I asked some questions along this line once before and the answer comes out like so: You can do anything you want to do hanging hardware off the expansion bus. You could build hardware that supports all kinds of floppies or tapes or whatever. But you'd also have to write the drivers for them and link them into the system. What you can't do is get more than 880K from the current hardware/software floppy support. Unless C.A. wants to change floppy hardware (and supply the proper software support), the current size and type and number of floppies is fixed. Too bad, too, because I would like to be able to just buy a double density drive and boom! 1.7 Meg Workbench. But only in my dreams. Dana @ cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!FelineGrace From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: replacement of 3.5 drives Message-ID: <24901@cup.portal.com> Date: 11 Dec 89 05:37:39 GMT References: <751@mindlink.UUCP> <1246@corpane.UUCP> <8859@cbmvax.UUCP> <16757@ultima.cs.uts.oz> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 17