[Coco] MacOS was Re: AmigaDOS was Re: model 4 cp/m

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:11 -0600
>From: Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net>

>IIRC the Amiga drives aren't "standard" drives either.  I don't remember
>the exact details, but I do believe that you can control more parameters
>of the Amiga drive and controller than you can on the PC.  Here's a
>quote from Wikipedia:

Yes, but the drives themselves are almost standard.  "Almost" means
that you can't just drop a PC drive in when the old drive dies. :-(

>So apparently getting the Amiga to read Mac disks is mainly a matter of
>exercising the Amiga's floppy controller properly.

Well, the board is part of the floppy daisy-chain.  The floppy cable
goes from the motherboard to the AMAX board.  Then another cable goes
from the AMAX board to the disk drive.  

Willard
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