itix wrote:
Mikronic used to sell 1.76MB internal floppy drives for Amiga. I had one in my A1200 and replaced original internal DD drive without problems.
Edit: I recall there was an external HD drive for all Amigas. It could read DD and HD floppies normally but with HD floppies it had internal buffers to slow down transfers.
It has always been my understanding that Amiga HD floppy drives operated at 1/2 the speed of 880kb drives to write the 1.76mb format to a HD floppy disk. I did not think this had anything to do with buffers slowing down the transfer of data. Someone correct me if I am wrong. The external HD slimline floppy drive that Dell computers made for the Amiga for a short time might not have had to slow down the drive to write the 1.76mb format, I'll have to dig mine out of storage and test it someday.
