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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.52 MB drive
Message-ID: <1064@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 91 15:05:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.134537.28374@mack.uit.no>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Apr3.134537.28374@mack.uit.no> terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Pedersen) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about the new 1.52 MB disc drive ?
>Is it able to read and write the 1.44 MB msdos disks ?

Yes, a colleague tried CrossDos successfully.

>I've heard that it is able to read and write machintosh disks, and that
>is a lot harder than the msdos stuff, so the answer should be yes.

I doubt that strongly. The drive only knows two speeds, full and half,
but as far as I know you need other speeds for Mac disks?

>Has anyone bought it ? if so what is the verdict ? 

"Not yet", I think :-)

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