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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 not work with some external floppy drive, rumor?
Keywords: A3000, external floppy drive, rumor,Fdata 10
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.235620.2307@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 30 Mar 91 23:56:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.132556.19890@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Mar30.132556.19890@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) writes:
>
>The dealer said: " you cannot use any external floppy drive with A3000
>unless it's a Chinon drive, or an Air drive(which they sell, I guess),
>or it can damage your internal floppy drive hardware!"
>
>Since then, I got my new machine, but am afraid to use any external drive
>fearing what the dealer said was true, then it's my fault to damage my

I have a feeling that this comment from your Dealer was just a sales
gimmick. As far as I know, the drive specs for the 3000 external drive
port and the one on the 2000/500 are basically the same. I know of 
people using no-name/no-brand external drives with their 3000's with no
problems.                

matt.                                      Editor : Reef Amigans Disk Mag.