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Article #29157Re: high density 3.5" disks
From: Michael Schuster
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1987 22:28
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1987 22:28
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In article <2923@hcr.UUCP> miken@hcr.UUCP writes:
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>Does anybody out there in netland know anything about these little wonders,
>aforementioned hardware, and most importantly, how I can make my ST
>use these disks?
These diskettes write 80 tracks x 18 sectors/track. They require a special
drive mechanism whose write bias is adjusted by a special pin on the
cardedge. Similar to the way AT clones enable the 1.2MB 5.25" drives.
A friend and I recently tried an external high density drive (made by NEC)
designed for AT clones. It could read 720K diskettes but little else. It
could not read 1.4 MB PS/2 diskettes at all. Probably the controller is
incapable of recognizing this format - DiskMech said the tracks were
blank.
Perhaps these beasties could be run through a hard disk controller, like
Supra's 10MB floppies. If not - I fear it may be hopeless.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!hoptoad!dasys1!schuster From: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: high density 3.5" disks Message-ID: <1940@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 17:28:17 EST Article-I.D.: dasys1.1940 Posted: Tue Nov 10 17:28:17 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Nov-87 20:42:53 EST References: <2923@hcr.UUCP> Reply-To: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster) Organization: The Big Electric Cat; New York, N.Y. USA Lines: 23 Summary: Dont think they'll work with ST