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The big problem is that the Amiga is designed to put out data onto floppy at 1 Mhz. A 2 Mhz clock is required for high density drives. Thus, the only way to add one is to put a drive on that slows the rate which the disk spins to half normal speed. One of the problems with this technique is that the ability of a stock motor (i.e. it's torque) is much less and the control logic has a difficult time maintaining an exact speed. Drag variations within different floppy manufacturers cause some disk to work and others to not to. The AE drives are slightly faster than half, thus cannot write MS-DOS high density diskettes. At least that's what I have heard. The true solution would be to extend the custom chipset to write data at 2X the current speed; IF it were modified, then a 4X clock option would be better to write for 2.8 Meg drivers, etc. Setting the number of sectors to a number larger than allowed will cause the disk to be written more than one full track. Obviously if the filesystem you are using even accepted that, you wouldn't be able to read back what you read and would be constantly losing data. -Greg