Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.emulations:521 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:7614 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 high density floppy drive with AMAX support! Message-ID: <20157@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 27 Mar 91 14:05:30 GMT References: <1991Mar22.214507.10761@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >In article <1991Mar22.214507.10761@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes: >>From a phone conversation with ReadySoft, I found out that not only is C= >>supposedly going to be releasing a 3.5" High Density 1.76 Meg floppy >I wonder how they got 1.76M? Wasn't AE trying for 1.76M, but found they >couldn't make it work so they dropped back to something lower? Well, it's actually 1.72M, if your M=megabytes. Twice 880K is logically what you would expect in a double density drive. I gather AE had trouble, possibly due to trouble maintaining a constant 1/2 speed. You might need a heavier flywheel kind of thing to run at the slower speed accurately, at least with the same motor. If you're involved in the design of the drive, though, you may have a number of solutions that work good. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.