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Re: Wanted: High density floppy drive
« on: August 25, 2006, 09:33:00 PM »
Beware the Power Computing XL drive - its software is flaky (and has to be patched to run on an '060) and it never seems to be very reliable dealing with HD disks.

I've had one from new and it has never worked properly! My main reason for it back then was to transfer stuff to the Amiga from 1.44Mb FAT disks on the PC, and for this it's fine.

But when it comes to writing to (or even formatting) 1.76Mb Amiga HD disks, it fails with verification errors 80% of the time. This is using decent branded disks.

Perhaps I just had a bad drive?

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