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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CrossDos using 1.44 meg Drives
Message-ID: <507@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 14:25:08 GMT
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Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
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>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