Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!jeremym From: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A-Max Stuff Message-ID: <14678@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 14 Oct 90 23:33:11 GMT References: Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 37 In article mental@bluemoon.uucp (Sean Kellner) writes: > > I hope this is the best base for this message to fit. >1010 drive (yes, I realize its too big) and both an Apple disk drive and >the MAST apple compatible, and a A500. I have two questions that noone >seems to know, so I am hoping someone will hel me... First, why doesnt the >A-Max cartidge work when attached to the back of the 1010 disk drive? It Why? Poor design. It doesn't work on my 500 either, but it does work ona 2000. Why the heck knows why. >Next, is there any way to >modify the setup to allow the apple drive to read/write disks while in >Amiga mode? I would glad to have it in just a special format, and be >estatic to use AmigaDOS disks. Thanks No. No way no how no possibility, never, nunca, no, nada, nine, jamas. Well, maybe.. Just kidding. The amiga used a one speed step rate motor, apple, in their infinate wizdom, deems that everything they do has to be nonstandard to the rest of the planet. That way, only apple will work with apple. Apple's drives use variable speed drives (it says all this in the amax manual) Since the speeds are different, forget it. Maybe Khalid or Dillon can come up with something... but, I seriously doubt that even thes top notch killer programmers from planet A can do it. Hope I've helped. // Ok.. Contacts, right: THE NET: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu // Compuserve : 73055,665 // or (73055.665@compuserve.com) \\X/ Amiga's rule, but then again, who doesn't really know this?? Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.