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From: anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent James Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Adding a second internal floppy
Keywords: adding second internal floppy disk drive amiga 2000
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Date: 23 Apr 91 00:52:32 GMT
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johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) writes:

>Does the external drive have the motor latch built into the drive?  Or
>did it have a little circuit card attached to the drive?  Remove it if
>it does--you can't use it.  The A2000 has the motor latch circuit built
>into the motherboard for the internal drives, and I know that some 720K
>IBM AT-type drives (that support diskchange) plug right in.  If the drive
>has the motor latch circuit built into the drive, I don't think it'll work.

I guess I got lucky... the drives are working in harmony now.

>P.S.  Could you keep your line length down to < 80 chars, please?

Sorry, I'm on an overscan screen and it's hard to tell just where 80 is.

-Beej