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From: niesemc@econ.vu.nl (Marco Niese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: CrossDos using 1.44 meg Drives
Summary: Hey, sounds like a last minute ECS add-in
Message-ID: <302@vuecon.econ.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Oct 89 08:36:54 GMT
References: <210@grape3.UUCP> <1186@corpane.UUCP>
Organization: VU Economics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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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...... 

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