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From: wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner)
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Subject: Re: Amiga support High Density floppies ?
Keywords: HD floppy
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Date: 7 Jun 91 22:12:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.005237.9755@sunaus.oz> dkelly@boffin.Aus.Sun.COM writes:
>Can anyone tell me what the status is regarding the Amiga (500/1000/2000/3000) supporting high density (i.e. 1.44Mb and/or above) 3.5-inch floppies ?
>
>Will (or can) they ever be supported as the "internal" DF0-type floppy unit ?
>Are there any external units available ?
>
>Thanks for any and all advice......
>
<Sig deleted>

Well, I don't know about any amiga specific products, but the
NeXT computer has a couple for it (PLI Super Floppy, CubeFloppy)
They do 720,1.4 and 2.88.
Of course they black and expensive.....

Why does this matter? cause they are SCSI. They would probably
work like a cartridge drive. You would have to write the
software for the formatting type, I have a program on the next
which will read any type 3.5 inch disk, unix tar, ms-dos, mac.

Boot? I don't think so, but I have been wrong before. I may
have access to both some time, maybe I'll give it a try.

Eric Wampner
eww@engr.ucf.edu
wampner@next1.acme.ucf.edu  <- EEEK, a next user...