CompuServe Messages

There's more to it than that. The halving of the drive speed has to be done by regulated circuitry; you can't just stick resistors in there… even more, uh, interesting, is that any magnetic read head's ability to sense fields is highly dependant on the wavelength of the field, and a lot of techno-garble factors like the permiability of the read head and etc. When you change the platter speed, *everything* changes – the strength of the applied field, wavelengths, etc. That's why you can't just hack a std drive to read high-density media. Also – and I know this for a fact – the Amiga's ability to read and writes disks is pretty darned poor. I have no idea why, but as far as floppy performance, over the years I've used Amiga's, I've grown to distrust its floppy systems to the point of paranoia. I'd really rather they at least used the right dirves, anyway. –Ben …via AutoPilot