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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: mount vs. 3.5" drives & diskchange
Message-ID: <1432@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 08:56:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1432
Posted: Sat Jul 25 08:56:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 01:49:14 EDT
References: <13964@watmath.UUCP> <2146@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 16
Summary: Extra hardware on drive

In article <2146@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <13964@watmath.UUCP>, sbmueller@watmath.UUCP (Stephan Mueller) says:
>> What must I do to the animal to have it do automatic diskchanges?  (I've had
>> it longer than the warranty, so I ain't worried about breaking nuthin.)
>
>The diskchange signal is usually a function of the drive mechanism. [...]

Also remember that Amiga disk drives are "standard" drives PLUS a small
circuit, which in the case of drives capable of detecting media-removal,
includes a LATCH of the media-change line, cleared by the STEP signal.
The schematic for this circuit is in the A1000 Schematics package.
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Michael "Ford" Ditto				-=] Ford [=-
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