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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: floppies and ansi info
Message-ID: <8801210804.AA00195@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 88 08:04:05 GMT
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>1) Why do the floppies for the amiga have 880K formatted capacities
>when so many others have 720K ? How about the 1.4M floppy drives (say
>by fujitsu) - can we install them and get 1.4M storage.

	Conventional controllers have the ability to read and write single
sectors at a time.  This requires a certain amount of space be left between
sectors.  As the Amiga reads and writes entire tracks at a time, there is
no need for these spaces and thus one can put more sectors on each track.

	I don't have the specs on the 1.4M floppies.  If they simply double
the number of tracks you can probably do it.  If they instead double the
bandwidth you can't do it with the built in floppy controller.

>2) Where can I find the complete listing of ansi commands supported
>by the con: device? The Amigados manual only seems to have a subset
>- trying to work on a better termcap for uw don't ya know.

	You could try the RKM manual.  If you have access to a SUN 
termcap (which is ANSI), you could use that... 

					-Matt