Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DD/HD Disks Message-ID: <1301@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 27 Mar 90 00:26:00 GMT Lines: 36 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <28327@cup.portal.com>, FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: >This 1.44 Meg floppy can't be run with the trackdisk device can it? >Won't you need at least a special driver for it or else a scsi >connection? Please supply more details about how this would work. In the message you were referring to, the reference was to a 1.44 MByte Teac drive with a SCSI interface, and the possibility of hooking it up to a 2090A. I think where you may be having the problem is in thinking that because it is a floppy drive, that it must use the trackdisk.device. However, since it is a SCSI device, it would hook up to a HD controller, and would use whatever driver that controller used (2090A uses hddisk.device, HardFrame uses HardFrame.device, etc.). So, you don't need a 'special driver', just whatever comes with the HD controller. All you should have to do is to describe the drive to the filesystem via a mountlist entry in order to use it. The other problems I mentioned are that since the controller looks at what's on the bus at boot time, you need, in order for the device to be recognized, to have a disk in the drive, prepped and ready to go. Each diskette you use will have to be prepped in exactly the same manner, or of not, you will have to have other mountlist entries with other device names for each other type of disk. Personally, I don't think it would be worth the hassle for the amount of storage you'd get from it, considering all the gyrations necessary to run one. Sorry if this seems a little incoherent. I am suffering with The Cold From Hell. -larry -- Entomology bugs me. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+