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Re:What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks o... by elweston2 on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:59AM (#21545873)
Would probably depend on the drive. There were utils out there in DOS land that let you format higher than normal. Usually by playing with the sector/track sizes. But it depended on the drive to let you do it. The best I ever got was ~1.6 out of my drives/media.
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Re:What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks o... by mnw21cam on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:03PM (#21547094)
The trick works by using the double sampling rate to inspect the normal data rate disk surface. When the disk surface already has a double data rate, the drive doesn't have a quadruple data rate mode to be able to read it.
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