From comp.sys.amiga.hardware Sat Jun 27 02:19:58 1992
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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: amiga high density floppy drives
Message-ID: <32553@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jun 92 21:14:30 GMT
References: <3928@winnie.fit.edu> <1992Jun19.173145.23082@blkbox> <32545@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>Again, are these capabilties present in KS/DOS 2.04?  
>
>Support for this kind of floppy is supposed to be in the 2.04 trackdisk.device
>(haven't used one byself, but I gather it's there).

	It's in there.  There is one bug that is fixed by a PD program and
a future SetPatch.  If you go high->low->high, you can no longer safely write
to high density disks.  low->high is ok, and high->low, but not high->low->
high.  (A buffer isn't being reset to empty MFM values.)

-- 
A Novice asked the master: "What is the true meaning of programming?"  The
master replied: "Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired, program
when the moment is right."  - The Zen of Programming
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Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.