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From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.44Meg HD discs?
Keywords: 1.44Meg better than .88Meg!
Message-ID: <6903@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 7 Sep 90 01:05:55 GMT
References: <8708@latcs1.oz.au> <7906@gollum.twg.com>
Reply-To: don@vax1.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <7906@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>they have to use one which can handle these higher clock rates.
>
>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.
>

	What about a SCSI floppy?  People who don't have hard drives wouldn't
be able to use them, but then again, people who don't have hard drives should
get hard drives before they worry about high density floppies :-)

	I guess if the speed is the main problem, it should be possible to
put some controller circuitry into the drive to read into an on-drive buffer,
then pass it on to the Amiga.  
	
	I realize that either of these solutions would probably be expensive...


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