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From: kortink@utis96.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: amiga disk reader
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.002750.11746@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 26 Mar 91 00:27:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.175843.248@ecc.tased.oz.au>
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In article <1991Mar22.175843.248@ecc.tased.oz.au> ecc_jim@ecc.tased.oz.au
writes:
>Can someone please tell me where I can get an application that will read amiga
>disks?
>Thanks in advance.
>Jim Palfreyman.

It cannot be done. The Amiga doesn't use an off-the-shelf FDC, but accesses
discs directly via a custom chip, which does 'dirty' things like putting
extra sectors in-line with the index-hole. Which is a no-no for the Arc's
1772 FDC.

This has been discussed all over the place (mainly on BBSses) for over a
year now, by the way.

John Kortink

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