Re: Hooking up Amiga drive to IBM compatible.

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From: Dave Haynie
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 20:00

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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.  

Don't bother...

>The reason, of course, is that there's no way for a normal IBM drive
>to read an amiga disk.  

Not quite; there's no way for a normal IBM PC-type floppy controller
to read the standard Amiga disk format. That's quite a different
thing, and has nothing to do with the floppy drive itself.

If you're looking for file transfers, use CrossDOS to build PC-format
disks on the Amiga.

Dave Haynie          | ex-Commodore Engineering |   for DiskSalv 3 &
Sr. Systems Engineer |  Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
Scala Inc., US R&D   |    Ki No Kawa Aikido     |     info@iam.com

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