inch floppies work in the A4000?
No. [The following text courtesy of Gene Heskett] A commodity PC drive runs at normal spindle speed for the drive, or 300 rpm. To move data in and out of it in high-density mode requires a 500 kilobaud data pump in the floppy path. The Amiga chips are only able to handle around 400 kilobauds. The Amiga actually runs its floppy data rate at the older double density standard of 250 kilobauds. To do high density on the older drives, special drives were ordered by Commodore that could run a fairly stable spindle speed of 150 rpm. If you watch it, you’d swear the drive was going to stop, it’s that slow. These are the high-density drives for an Amiga, and until the chips get a refresh for a higher data rate, are the only type of drives that can be used in high density mode on an Amiga. [Editor’s note: some people have managed to modify standard drives; however, all reports indicate that these perform unreliably at best.] I might add that since these custom Amiga drives run at half speed, the
