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In article <14678@brahms.udel.edu> jeremym@brahms.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>In article <XZJ1q2w163w@bluemoon.UUCP> mental@bluemoon.uucp (Sean Kellner) writes:
>> I hope this is the best base for this message to fit.
>>1010 drive (yes, I realize its too big) and both an Apple disk drive and 
>>the MAST apple compatible, and a A500. I have two questions that noone 
>>seems to know, so I am hoping someone will hel me... First, why doesnt the 
>>A-Max cartidge work when attached to the back of the 1010 disk drive? It 
>
>Why? Poor design. It doesn't work on my 500 either, but it does work
>ona 2000. Why the heck knows why.

Not exactly.  It's not Readysoft's fault that A-Max won't work plugged into
your A1010, it's Commodore's.  It not exactly their _fault_ either.  Commodore
only officially supports one (1) external drive plugged into the A500 or
the A1000.  Because of this, some A1010's were built with no power on the
drive pass-thru.  

Therefore, Sean, you should be able to plug your A1010 into the A-Max cartidge 
and plug the A-Max into the computer.  I don't know about A-Max I, but under 
A-Max II this will also make that drive 3 instead of 2. (At least in the setup 
I used this weekend, with my external drive plugged into the cartridge and a 
Mac drive hooked up.  This may not happen without the Mac drive.  Your 
mileage may vary.)

Also, Jeremy Moskovitz says that A-Max won't work on his 500.  I have had no 
problems using it on mine.  Maybe you've got a dain-bramaged CIA chip.  A-Max 
cartidges have a nasty reputation for zapping CIAs in such a way that most 
everything else still works, but no A-Max...  This, of course, only occurs 
when you plug or unplug the cartridge with the power on, which I'm sure no 
one _here_ is guilty of doing... :-)

>>Next, is there any way to 
>>modify the setup to allow the apple drive to read/write disks while in 
>>Amiga mode? I would glad to have it in just a special format, and be 
>>estatic to use AmigaDOS disks. Thanks
>
>No. No way no how no possibility, never, nunca, no, nada, nine, jamas.
>Well, maybe.. Just kidding. The amiga used a one speed
>step rate motor, apple, in their infinate wizdom, deems
>that everything they do has to be nonstandard to the rest of
>the planet. That way, only apple will work with apple.
>Apple's drives use variable speed drives (it says all this in
>the amax manual)
>
>Since the speeds are different, forget it. Maybe Khalid or Dillon
>can come up with something... but, I seriously doubt that
>even thes top notch killer programmers from planet A can 
>do it. 

Actually, (I may have misunderstood) it sounds like Sean wants to use his Mac
drive as another storage device, and would be happy if it could use AmigaDOS
disks.  I don't see it as too difficult to use the Mac drive under AmigaDOS,
but you'd definitely have to write a different driver for it.  As for
reading/writing AmigaDOS, I don't know.  There is supposed to be an Amiga
emulator (Don't worry.  I've heard it's really BAD.) on the Mac.  I have no
idea if it can use AmigaDOS floppies.  If so, then it would be possible to
make a Mac drive emulate an Amiga drive.

Like I said, it _should_ be possible to write something along the lines of
MSH: for Mac floppies.  In fact, I've been miffed at Readysoft for not doing
it...  

Aw, now I guess I have to dig out that list of Amiga projects I have and
add that to it....

Opinions?  Ideas?  Flam....er...forget that last one...

>Hope I've helped. 

Ditto.

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