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Offline psxphill

Re: PowerXL HD floppy not working - help please.
« on: January 27, 2013, 01:54:04 AM »
Quote from: spirantho;724150
The PowerXL drive will have to do the same as the Chinon FB357A in an A4000 - it needs to run at 150rpm.

No it buffers the track and then shifts it back at half speed. Doing the opposite for writing needs the patch for some reason.
 
It probably wouldn't be too expensive to make something similar. I'm surprised jens hasn't done one.
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Offline psxphill

Re: PowerXL HD floppy not working - help please.
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2013, 10:17:22 AM »
Quote from: spirantho;724223
So does the interface convert from DISKCHG to RDY as well then?

I don't know. I only read about them, never had one.
 
http://ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/aminet/docs/rview/PowerMDisk.txt
 
"If you want faster access, there have been other attempts to
work round the problem with mixed success. The Power XL Drive uses a
buffer to handle the data sent to the Amiga. This, as the DiskSpeed
results below show, works reasonably well. The other solution is the
untested Catweasel board, which basically acts as a replacement floppy
controller."
 
I had one of the variable speed dell laptop drives that came out after commodore went under.