Re: Hooking up Amiga drive to IBM compatible.

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From: Warren Block
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 15:46

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D.H. (avell@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: 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?

It's not the drive, it's the controller.  Some of the IBM disk-copier 
boards might be able to copy an Amiga disk; the normal floppy interface 
can't handle it.  As far as an OFS or FFS filesystem for the PC, good luck 
finding one.

If you have an A4000, why not just use it to write the disks in MS-DOS 
format?

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