Slave drive for Microdisc

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highwayman wrote:the difference between amiga drives & pc drives has nothing to do with angle or encoding,
Yes unlike Mac.
and dont use high-density disks as double-density,
a high density drive can detect the disk type and change it's settings.
Taping the HD hole should work fine...
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mmu_man wrote:
highwayman wrote:the difference between amiga drives & pc drives has nothing to do with angle or encoding,
Yes unlike Mac.
dont talk to me about those damned 26pin drives!
mmu_man wrote:
and dont use high-density disks as double-density,
a high density drive can detect the disk type and change it's settings.
Taping the HD hole should work fine...
yea, that works if the tape is stif - a small sticker works better.
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Once at the computer club, we had a drawer full of floppy drives, mostly Mac and/or IBM PS/2 so not easily used in any of the computers we actually used. It was a bit frustrating to know they probably were good working floppy drives, but with no apparent use.
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