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Article #12263Re: How to upgrade an AMSTRAD 1386 HD??
From: Michael Doyle
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:00
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John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <816277351.3997@ubiquity.demon.co.uk> miked "Michael Doyle" writes: > >>Unfortunately, this machine does not use IDE. Shame - though vendors that I >>call say its real easy to add disks in my situation. Maybe its simpler to dump >>the thing and move on. > >Seems a shame if it still works. What drives does it use then ? > >-- >John Beardmore Well, it's currently connected to a 65MB original MFM drive that was in an old Elonex 386-20 machine. It's huge too (about 10" x 6" x 4") - it's amazing how things have shrunk! The original Amstrad drive died and does not seem to respond well after reformatting. It's okay for a while but then loses data bits - so I have shelved it. The MFM drive is type 28 (I think) but the Amstrad BIOS, as I explained, doesn't know about them. I think it is currently using type 4, but it is so SLOW (transfer rate about 32Kbytes/s...honest!) that I am not sure what to do except get a new disk with a BIOS on-board. -- Michael Doyle Ubiquity Software Limited Technical Director Imperial House, Imperial Way Tel: +44 1633 811806 Celtic Lakes, Newport Fax: +44 1633 811807 NP1 9UH, UK
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