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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??
Message-ID: <1140@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 24 Aug 90 22:50:26 GMT
References: <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP> <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Well, if you call "using a proprietary low-level format to pack 880K instead
>of 720K on a disk" a "bug", yes.

No, you could access the hardware with trackdisk.device to use the
standard 720K format. But due to a bug in trackdisk.device these
functions (TD_RAWREAD,TD_RAWWRITE) won't work realiable unless
the Amiga has two drives.


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