niesemc@econ.vu.nl (Marco Niese) (10/20/89)
In article <1186@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: > > Nope, Crossdos won't work with 1.44 meg floppies. But that's a limitation of > the Amiga, in the actual hardware if I am not mistaken. The chip that controls > the floppy drives can't handle the 1.44 meg style drives. That's not a very good feature :-( In the future, when we have A2500s with A2386s (maybe 2000s with A2088T) it may be nice to use the internal floppy as a 1.44 meg B: drive. I don't think the current 880k (720) will do this, so it needs replacement. Then this drive should work like an old 880k drive *and* offer a 1.44 (maybe: 1760k :-) mode. Now you can use some hardware switch to enable the Bridge to use it (after PC-Hard). But you will also be able to read/write 1.44 from AmigaDOS, using programs like CrossDOS. The floppy controller needs to support all these nice things. It may be a short time before ECS/1.4 comes out, but maybe it can be done. SuperDrive ?!? No...... > John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps > ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 _______________________________________________________________________________ | # # # # | Marco Niese | //// | | # # # # |---------------------------------------| Just Say No | | # # # # | There's never time to do it right, | To Bugs | | # # # # | but allways time to do it over. | \\\\ //// | | #### ######### | (Meskimen's Law) | \\\\//// | | Economics |---------------------------------------| \\//// | | ('FEWEC') | E-Mail: niesemc@econ.vu.nl | A m i g a | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) (10/24/89)
>From: niesemc@econ.vu.nl (Marco Niese) >That's not a very good feature :-( In the future, when we have A2500s with >A2386s (maybe 2000s with A2088T) it may be nice to use the internal floppy >as a 1.44 meg B: drive. I don't think the current 880k (720) will do this, >so it needs replacement. Then this drive should work like an old 880k drive >*and* offer a 1.44 (maybe: 1760k :-) mode. Now you can use some hardware switch >to enable the Bridge to use it (after PC-Hard). But you will also be able >to read/write 1.44 from AmigaDOS, using programs like CrossDOS. If anyone remembers the "floptical" drive that was announced last year (by Insight )I have a bit of news from them. They held up production trying to get this 20 meg 3 1/2 removable cartridge drive to read and write to standard 880/720K disks. It seems that they have succeded! I plan on checking them out next month at Comdex. If this is true, you can keep those 1.4 meg drives, the floptical will do the work of two drives in one slot. Monty Saine