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Offline Zac67

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Re: Can a 1581 drive be made to read Amiga floppies?
« on: August 18, 2011, 09:04:09 PM »
Reading could be difficult due to the Amiga writing a complete track at once with a single sync - the 1581 would require enough RAM to buffer the track. Possibly you could be able to use a clever scheme to read a track in more than one step. Additionally, the drive would be required to learn OFS.

Writing most probably is impossible since the track must be written in one piece.