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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 high density floppy drive with AMAX support!
Message-ID: <20253@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 06:42:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.150300.6691@grebyn.com> <1006@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Mar27.141826.11339@fwi.uva.nl> <1991Mar28.220301.5555@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar28.220301.5555@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:
>In article <1991Mar27.141826.11339@fwi.uva.nl> groenewo@fwi.uva.nl (Ferry van het Groenewoud) writes:
>>Is the 1.76 Mb HD amiga floppy able to read real Mac-formatted Mac-disks?
>Yes and No!  By itself it can't, but with the support of the AmaxII+ it will.

>>What will be the price of the drive?
>I don't know what CMB's price is going to be, but I have priced the OEM drive
>to less than $60 !!

	Careful, it's not a "standard" PC HD drive, it's a special hacked
drive that spins almost amusingly slow (Paula can only handle a 250Kbps
data rate, so the only way to up capacity without a total reimplementation
of Paula is to run the drive slowly.)

>>Will it be able to format DD disks with HD capacity (ie. will it look for
>>the hole in HD disks or not? I hope it won't).
>It will of course look for the hole in the disk. 

	Yup.  The FS even auto-changes size on disk-insertion.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)