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1.44M floppy on Mega STE

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From: David P. Forrai
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:32
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With all the talk about 1.44 meg floppies on Mega STE/TTs using TOS
2.05/3.05 and the WD1772 chip, I decided to see if my Mega STE would
read/write 1.44M floppies.  Earlier I had posted to find out whether
the disk drive was a 1.44M one and thanks to someones reply, I found
out it was.  My dealer had showed me where to install the AJAX chip
should I decide to upgrade to 1.44M.

I inserted a 1.44M floppy from a PC and it worked!  So now my questions
are:
1) Is the WD1772 reliable for 1.44M disks?
2) Does TOS 2.05 know how to format 1.44M disks?
3) If the desktop does not know how to format 1.44M disks, can the
   XBIOS format routine in TOS 2.05 format 1.44M disks?
4) I know there is a DIP switch somewhere that has something to do
   with 1.44M floppies.  What does it do?

Thanks in advance!



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From: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 1.44M floppy on Mega STE
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Date: 21 Dec 92 04:32:48 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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