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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.44Meg HD discs?
Summary: RLL floppies?
Keywords: 1.44Meg better than .88Meg!
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.120626.10524@sisd.kodak.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 12:06:26 GMT
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Here's a silly thought that just occurred to me:

If the Amiga floppy controller reads raw data into RAM and relies
on software (the blitter, I think) to do MFM decoding, would it be
possible, with a new driver, to encode floppies in RLL and get a 50%
increase in capacity?

Of course, that does nothing for compatibility with 1.44 meg disks, and the
RLL decoding in software might be slow, but I'm sure that someone could
find a use for cramming 880K x 1.5 = 1.32M on a disk.

Ed Hanway
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