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Subject: Re: Can A IBM clone drive (1.2M or 1.44M) work for A3000?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 19:29:32 GMT
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>read MS-DOS disk with proper software.  Is this implies that one can use IBM
>clone floppy drive to substitute a amiga drive?  Currently amiga drive cost
>about twice as expensive as a clone drive, while amiga drive has small

The drives are basically the same. The only problem is that documentation is
usually hard (i.e. impossible) to obtain, so you don't know which jumper to
switch to enable stuff like disk change. If you can get decent documentation
then almost any drive is a safe purchase. (Which implies that most drives are
not a safe purchase).

-- Dan Babcock