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From: dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AE HD Floppy
Message-ID: <843@ki.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 12:50:07 GMT
References: <3027@mindlink.UUCP> <2915@corpane.UUCP> <1990Sep7.062756.7556@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
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In article <1990Sep7.062756.7556@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes:
>
>   AE showed up at a MCCC meeting here in Arlington and brought a drive 
>with them. It seemed to work fine. One person who got a early one said he had 
>trouble with a Mac drive under AMAX plugged into it. 
>  
>  They also said that it appeared as 2 logical devices????? to the system.

One of my coworkers has the AE drive on his A500.  AE uses two logical
devices so that you can access the drive either as a standard density
floppy or as a high density floppy.  If I recall, you add 4 to the drive
number to get the high density access.  So, DF2 would be normal density
and DF6 would be high density.  An interesting thing that we've seen, is
that FACCII will work with the high density drive even though FACCII is
only designed to handle DF0..DF4.  Don't rember what it showed up as, but
I think it was DF3.

He's also run into compatability problems with some software that don't
like accessing drives greater than DF3, but those are few.
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