TLIMONCE@DREW.BITNET (07/11/88)
Due to college costs (oh, we've all heard that one before :-) I can't seem to afford more RAM, nor can I afford a hard drive. This got me thinking (which is something I try to stay away from, eh Eric?) I could get a 1.2meg 5.25" drive (used) for very little money. Is there anyway I could interface it to my Amiga? I don't care if I'd have to mount it under the FFS or the SFS just as long as I'd have that much more disk space. It would certainly be enough for an "external C: directory" (so to speak). I haven't heard anything about such an interface, anyone do it yet? (or make my dreams come true and just tell me that it's the same as the 360K drive specs) Tom A // Tom Limoncelli -- TLimonce@Drew.Bitnet \ M // "Never trust a person that doesn't know machine language!" \ I \\// /\ G XX "Have you hugged your SO today?" / \ A -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The above are my views, not those of Drew University or my employer"
ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) (07/25/88)
>I could get a 1.2meg 5.25" drive (used) for very little money. >Is there anyway I could interface it to my Amiga? I don't care if >I'd have to mount it under the FFS or the SFS just as long as I'd >have that much more disk space. It would certainly be enough for >an "external C: directory" (so to speak). Probably impossible... The 1.2M mode on PC floppies is clocked at the same rate as used in 8" drives (in fact, 1.2M drives have been used by the CP/M crowd to replace 8" units). Unless there is a way to make an Amiga clock data 2X faster, I don't any way of getting this to work. However, it should be fairly easy to hook up a 96 tpi (80 track) drive to give you 800K on 51/4" disks. Dave P.S. One of the early issues of Amazing had details on how to hook this up. Also, I think that the 1.2Meg Drives can be used the same as a standard 96 tpi drive by asserting the density select signal in an appropriate fashion.