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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 360K drive on an AT bridge board
Message-ID: <1278@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 16:44:14 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>     I have a 2500 with a 2286 bridge board.  Since I exchange my
>MS-DOS work with machines having 360K floppy disk drives, I've
>tried replacing the 1.2-megabyte drive that came with the bridge
>board with a 360K drive (Teac FD-55BR). 

Sorry I can't help you with the change over, but I do have a question:

Why do you need to replace the 1.2 meg drive? The 1.2 meg drives are perfectly
capable of reading and writing 360K disks, at least they are on all our
clones here at work. I have heard of some 360K drives having problems reading
disks formatted to 360k by a 1.2 meg drive; if this is the case you can
preformat the disks on your 360k drives on your MSDOS machine and should still
be able to write to them on the 1.2 meg drive.

Or is there something weird about the 1.2 meg drive that comes with the Amiga?


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