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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« on: March 30, 2007, 08:04:09 AM »
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Minuous wrote:
>Device 8 - 12 usually refer to diskdrives.

I think it's 8-11, for the four possible floppy drives?

8-11 are the adresses usable for standard Commodore diskdrives such as the 1541 (including -C and -II), the 1570, 1571, 1581 (and some other, lesser known) drives and that's because they only have two jumpers for controlling the drivenumber. If you use something like a CMD Ramlink or CMD Harddrive, you can happily use higher drivenumbers such as 12, 13 etc.

In my current C128-setup, I use two 1571's, an FD2000, a Ramlink and a CMD Harddrive, which can all be used simultaneously with drivenumbers 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

To slightly add to the confusion concerning drivenumbers on Commodores: GEOS and its upgrade Wheels use driveletters (A, B, C, D) thus more resembling a pc.

But this is going offtopic.
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