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2.2 Floppy Diak Drive■
The Amiga supports tour floppy disk drives: DFO:, DFI :, DF2: and DF3:.
The floppy disk controller, the recordlna format and the organization of Amiga
disks differ fundamentally from PC/AT floppy disk controllers.
Golden Gate offers two different methods for the operation of MS-DOS disks
or floppy disk drives. Both methods can be used together or independent of
each other.
Method I
Method 2
A maximum of two of the possible four Amiga floppy disk
(DF0:, .. , DF3:) drives are emulated as MS-DOS floppy disk drives
A and B.
Up to three separate floppy disk drives can be connected with
the Golden Gate floppy disk controller (optional) and be used
for MS-DOS.
In the following, questions and their answers are compiled which can be of
interest in connection with this topic.
How
man!/ flopp!I disk drives can normal!!/ be controlled b!I
MS-DOS ?
MS-DOS (in all its versions) can control a maximum of two floppy disk
drives without an additional driver program. These bear the logical drive
letters A and B. In order to use any further floppy disk drives first some
suitable hardware (floppy disk controller) and then a corresponding driver
program under MS-DOS are required.
All known programs are suited to find a maximum of two floppy disk drives.
Which
MS-DOS
disk formats does Golden Gate emulate with the Amiga flopp!/ disk drives?
With Golden Gate and the Amiga floppy disk drives (3,5" or 5.25"") the
following standard MS-DOS formats can be emulated:
Form factor
3,5""
5,25""
5,25""
Fromatted capacity
720KB
360KB
720KB
Disks of these formats can be read, written, and formatted.
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