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Article #20471Re: Hooking up Amiga drive to IBM compatible.
From: john.chang
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:15
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:15
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In <469s76$hba@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, avell@ix.netcom.com (D.H.) writes: >I would like hook up an Amiga 4000 high density disk drive to my IBM >compatible computer. The reason, of course, is that there's no way >for a normal IBM drive to read an amiga disk. Does anyone know how >this could be done? Could I just plug it in safely? In any event, is >there software available to read the disks once it's hooked up? >Thanks for any info. Why not use CrossDOS that already comes with the Amiga OS? It can read and write MS-DOS disks and even converts Amiga long-file names to the MS-DOS 8 character/3 letter extension. Or is the situation that you have the A4000 high-density drive, but not the Amiga to go with it? :) Regards, John Chang ____ John Chang, Technical Support Manager, Scala, Inc. USA Websites: www.scala.com or www.scala.no USA Technical Support: tech.support@scala.com USA Sales Information: sales@scala.com "Multimedia by SCALA. Why Make It Harder?" Scala Computer Television ____ "Too bad she won't live. But then again, who does." - Gaf (BladeRunner)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!scala!news From: john.chang@scala.com Subject: Re: Hooking up Amiga drive to IBM compatible. Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator) Message-ID: <1995Oct23.141548.18408@scala.scala.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:15:48 GMT Reply-To: john.chang@scala.com References: <469s76$hba@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: panda Organization: Scala Inc.