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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PCF554
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.195042.24542@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 19:50:42 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.211439.23664@isc.rit.edu> drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) writes:
>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.

I bought a floppy drive cable from EAB, and it came with their software.
None of it works on TOS 1.4 or 1.6.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan

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