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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Floptical Hardware Requirements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.203506.11752@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:35:06 GMT
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- >Do you HAVE to use ICD's LINK to connect a floptical? I have an ICD host
- >adaptor for my external SCSI hard disk. Can I not plug a floptical into the
- >DMA out plug on the external disk?
-
- The story that I hear locally is:
-
- Yes, it works with the other ICD Host Adaptors.
-
- But you need the newest version of the software (something like
- ICDBoot 6.0.4). There was someone that picked up one of these units,
- and was trying to run it using version 6.0.2, without success. It's
- probably a good excuse to send ICD five bucks to upgrade you to the
- latest edition.
-
- There may also be problems formatting flopticals using a version of
- ICDFORMAT.PRG older than the latest edition.
-
- I suggest you wait 2 weeks until the versions stabilize before buying
- :-). It probably won't take as long as Falcon, since the hardware and
- software are both quite readily available, but may just need some
- coordination. And ICD seems to be a little more coordinated than
- Atari...
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