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From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.225700.16473@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 22:57:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.170209.397@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>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.
>
>>	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.

  That's probably not it Marc. Commodore says their drives are
880k and (2*880k=1.76mb) but when formatted they are less. AE's
drive is probably 1.76mb too, but when formatted by the OFS they are
probably less. Even if they aren't compat, C='s drive will
eventually prevail and AE will have to fix their trackdisk.device
to read and write Commodore's disks.

>>
>>"...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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