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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: replacement of 3.5 drives
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Date: 11 Dec 89 05:37:39 GMT
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[line eater food]

I asked some questions along this line once before and the answer comes
out like so:

You can do anything you want to do hanging hardware off the expansion bus.
You could build hardware that supports all kinds of floppies or tapes or
whatever.  But you'd also have to write the drivers for them and link
them into the system.  What you can't do is get more than 880K from the
current hardware/software floppy support.  Unless C.A. wants to change 
floppy hardware (and supply the proper software support), the current
size and type and number of floppies is fixed.

Too bad, too, because I would like to be able to just buy a double
density drive and boom!  1.7 Meg Workbench.  But only in my dreams.

Dana @ cup.portal.com