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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AE HD Floppy
Message-ID: <2915@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 14:22:32 GMT
References: <3027@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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a72@mindlink.UUCP (Raman Anand) writes:

>Has anyone tried using Generic 1.44K internal IBM drives with Applied
>Engineering (AE) high density drivers?

>Raman

How does the AE drives work anyway? I remember people asking Dave Haynie if
the new version (then called 1.4) of AmigaDOS would support 1.44 meg floppies
and the answer was no, because the chip that handles floppy access could not
support any larger drives. It was a hardware limitation. So, how is AE getting
amigaDOS to support high density drives?
And can CBM maybe license this technology from them and make it an Amiga
standard? 


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