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From: drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PCF554
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.211439.23664@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 21:14:39 GMT
References: <1990Dec16.234939.22473@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Dec16.234939.22473@watmath.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>I recently bought a PCF554 disk drive that is designed for 5.25
>floppy disks.  It did not come with any instructions.  Can you
>help me to get it going?  Is there some software needed?

You need a program in the auto folder that will slow down the seek rate
delay for the FDC chip.  "ST" drives are 3ms but most 5 1/4 drives are
about 5ms.  The chip can handle from 2ms - 6ms.  E. Arthur Brown has the
software to do it (it includes formatters and stuff) for $15.  I don`t
know if there is aPD version.

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