Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!isgate!krafla!adamd From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: high density discs. Keywords: discs Message-ID: <3236@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 9 Jun 91 13:46:43 GMT References: <1967@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Organization: University of Iceland Lines: 18 rcpieter@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: >yorkr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Richard York) writes: >> The arc over the last few years has become much more memory hungry due to >>much bigger and better software. Bigger floppies now seem a good way to go. >It would be better, at this moment in time, to skip the 2Mb floppies >and go straight for the 4Mb ones. (This would make backing up 150Mb >onto floppies a tiny bit bearable again.) The hardware for getting the WD1772 FDC to handle HD drives and some types of ED drives is very simple. This has been done on Atari ST and could no doubt be installed in any Archi. I wonder how well ADFS copes with 1600k and 3200k floppies. Does anyone know about the software angle on this one? -- Adam David. (adamd@rhi.hi.is)