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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.44Meg HD discs?
Message-ID: <1019@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 7 Sep 90 12:02:46 GMT
References: <8708@latcs1.oz.au> <7906@gollum.twg.com>
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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G'day,

In article <7906@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:

> In article <8708@latcs1.oz.au> barton@latcs1.oz.au (The Wasp) writes:
>>I was wondering if any amiga users out there have heard of a driver for
>>HD disk drives?

> Not easily possible.
> 
> With the HD disks and, assumably, these new 2.88 meg drives the information 
> is recorded at a higher bit density (clock speed) than Amiga's are
> able to handle.  Or, more properly, designed (off the shelf) to handle.

[..deleted..]

> One could fairly easily design a plug in board which contains a floppy
> disk controller.  This would require a device driver (fdc.device?)
> and changes to `format' so it knows about this new format.  (Or is
> it that format simply sends a FORMAT-DEVICE packet to the device driver?)
> This wouldn't really be any harder than any other plug in board design.
> 
> I hope this answers your question.

I didn't ask the original question but you've answered my questions just the
same. :-) Thanks David.

However your explanation begs the questions of

  o whether there are floppy controller boards for any Amigas
    (2000's most likely)

  o if not, then why not? Too small a market perhaps? I cannot buy
    that nowadays though with there being near 2M Amiga's out there.

Any one have any ideas?

> <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com>

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.