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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transformer with 3.5" disks?
Message-ID: <1121@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 04:12:30 GMT
References: <6331@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Yes, It can be done


Yes, Transformer, the orginal version, will work with the 3.5 inch
disks.  To get all 80 tracks, you must use IBM DOS 3.2 and set up
your CONFIG.SYS file to load DRIVER.SYS device driver with the
appropriate parameters for a 3.5 inch drive.  Get a duly licensed
copy of DOS, and consult the manual's appendix on CONFIG.SYS.
Eventhough transformer doesn't promise that it will work with DOS
3.2, it seems to be OK.  3.2 is the only way to get 80 tracks from
the 3.5 inch drives.  If you use DOS 2.11, you can still use the
3.5 inch drives, but they'll only format to 360K.

I don't know if the original transformer will work on the Amiga
500; I haven't tried it yet.

--Bill