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From: billsey@agora.rain.com (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Want to use a 1.2meg 5 1/4 drive via Crossdos.
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.212633.8946@agora.rain.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 21:26:33 GMT
References: <1991Jan6.012230.27277@nas.nasa.gov>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <1991Jan6.012230.27277@nas.nasa.gov> ranma@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez) writes:
:I want to install a 5 1/4" HD drive in my Amy (1.2 meg PC drive).  I will
:be using it for writing MS-DOS formatted diskettes using Crossdos, which
:won't be a problem.
:
:Anyway, is there either a drive already made for the connector in the Amiga,
:or a cable available to convert a standard 5 1/4" drive to the Amiga's
:floppy cable.

	Can't be done. :-( The 1.2M 5.25 inch floppies require you to be able
to send data at 500Kbit/s. Paula only supports the 250Kbit/sec mode in MFM
format. The same thing goes with the 1.44M 3.5 inch floppies. The only way
you can use high density right now is to physically slow the drive speed down
like Applied Engineering does.

:   robert gutierrez

			Bill
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