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Message-ID: <1990Sep13.131121.20607@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 13 Sep 90 17:11:17 GMT
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In article <lupe.653137533@alanya>, lupe@alanya.Germany.Sun.COM (Lupe Christoph - Sun Germany Consulting - Munich) writes:
> The Amiga floppy hardware is more flexible than the regular integrated
> floppy controllers. It can read/write *any* encoding (at least, MFM).
> The issue is that the Amiga has support hardware to encode/decode GCR,
> but not MFM. But MFM coding/decoding can be done in software, so it's
> just slower.

This isn't really correct. There's no built-in decode/encode, period. There
is a rather obscure mode to sync on MSB (like the AppleII/Mac controllers),
but it is never neccessary to use it. You could do GCR recoding via the
trackdisk's RawRead and RawWrite if you wanted to.

-- Dan Babcock