| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2283.1 | Yep... Used it! | CSSE::WARD | | Mon Feb 27 1989 17:35 | 9 |
| Yes, DOS-2-DOS on a 1000 external drive (R/W) works with 720K
off a PS/2 Model 80 created 3.5"
The MSDOS command is FORMAT B:/T:80/N:9 for eigthy tracks with
9 sectors per track. The 1.44M disk has 18 sectors per track.
ASCII files will fill-up a MS-DOS disk like this slightly faster
than the Amiga version.
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| 2283.2 | | STOUT::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Mon Feb 27 1989 17:52 | 9 |
| Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I meant... Can I buy an MSDOS
720K 3.5" disk drive and install it into my A2000 as DF1: ?
I was under the impression that Amiga drives were the same as those
used as 720K format drives in IBM/Clone machines. I believe the
720K vs 880K is simply due to software (No spacing between tracks
on the Amiga).
-steve
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| 2283.3 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Mon Feb 27 1989 20:49 | 6 |
| re: .2
you are correct. Previous notes describe how to do that. Just
make sure you get a 720k drive, not a 1.44Meg drive.
-Dave
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| 2283.4 | | STOUT::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Tue Feb 28 1989 11:52 | 9 |
| re: .3
I thought the info was in here somewhere, but I haven't been able to find
it. Any idea what note? I've tried meaningful title phrases and
keywords without any luck.
thanks,
steve
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| 2283.5 | need Autoconfig circuit also | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Tue Feb 28 1989 13:26 | 5 |
| I don't think it's quite as simple as just installing the drive.
In order for the Amiga's auto-configuration software to work, the drive
must identify itself. There is a circuit you can build which will do
that.
John Sauter
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| 2283.6 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Feb 28 1989 19:56 | 9 |
| re:.5
He is talking about the A2000, which has the drive id circuit on
the motherboard for the second floppy. You need to put a jumper
plug on J301 to enable it.
Then set the drive select on the 2nd disk drive to be drive 1.
-Dave
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