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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.170209.397@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:02:09 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.043057.24705@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	I guess I'm missing something. Why is that any different
>from the way normal low-density 3.5" drives have been working on
>the Amiga for the past 6 years? I can't go get a low-density IBM
>3.5" drive and put it on my Amiga.

   The 3.5" drives that Commodore uses are standard 1M IBM drives.  With
a $5 interface, you can just plug in any IBM 3.5" 720K drive and it will
work fine. 

>	I would HOPE that the Commodore drive and the AE drive
>can read each other's disks. If they can't then there is a
>problem that I admit to. Otherwise, it is a standard that any
>hardware company can use.
>	-- Ethan

   As far as I know, the AE and Commodore drives are totally incompatible (at
least they are incompatible in the high-density mode).  The two companies
used totally different schemes to get the drives to work on Amigas.  The
Commodore drives format to the full 1.76MB capacity, while the AE drives
only format to 1.52MB in high-density.

>
>"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
>had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
>of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
>that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."

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