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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.2 Meg Floppy and the Amiga
Message-ID: <6020@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 00:05:32 GMT
References: <876@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <876@ur-cc.UUCP> coop@image.rochester.edu (Optics Group co-op student) writes:
>
>I have interfaced a 1.2Meg 5.25 floppy disk to my amiga 500.
>The problem I am having is that I can't format beyound 40 (0-39) tracks.
>
>I have concluded that the problem must be in the trackdisk.device
>driver.  All the manuals I could get my hands on indicate that the
>trackdisk.device driver is hardcoded for a maximum of 80 tracks for 3.5"
>drives and 40 tracks for 5.25" drives.

if you just connected a standard 1.2 meg IBM PC style floppy
to your Amiga disk connecter, I think you'll be running
into some limits on speed that Paula can read raw bits from the disk.

>5) Why doesn't the Fast File System work with floppies? The format
>works fine but files are always corrupt and there are no error
>messages.

For floppies, all buffers must be in chip memory.
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Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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