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#Hi-Density Floppy

    06-Aug-92 17:50:35
Fm: Charles Hill 76370,3045
To: ac 76677,156
Andy, The high-density drives exist and have a part number, but the operating system cannot handle them properly. v2.04 requires that a high-density drive be in DF0: and will not work (as reported by my dealer — and he actually showed me this) in other places. Some of the new machines that have come in have had 2.05 ROMs, which are supposed to have a correction for this. I suspect that Commodore won't let the high density drives out (en masse) until all (or most) machines shipping can work with them. From what I've been told (and actually *seen*), Workbench 2.1 is all but complete and waiting to go into silicon. It also incorporates a fix for the highdensity drives. -Chas