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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Aminux on March 29, 2006, 08:41:17 PM

Title: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: Aminux on March 29, 2006, 08:41:17 PM

  Can i use a PC floppy on Amiga?Do modern floppies work?

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: CLS2086 on March 29, 2006, 08:43:52 PM

Yes you can for DD/DS floppy disk.
All the information are on AMinet and on the net.
REad you soon

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: amigagr on March 29, 2006, 08:49:23 PM

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Aminux wrote:
  Can i use a PC floppy on Amiga?Do modern floppies work?

better forget about it

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: Aminux on March 29, 2006, 08:53:30 PM

   I would forget about it,but the problem is that my Amiga floppy drive is broken,and to get a new one is very expensive while PC floppy drives are very easy to find and are cheap!

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: amigagr on March 29, 2006, 08:58:52 PM

yes i know, all of as we would like to use them but as far as i know all the ''tricks'' that exist on aminet are not working more or less... if you have the patiens you can try aminet (http://aminet.net/search.php?path=hard/hack&start=0)

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: humppa on March 29, 2006, 09:05:58 PM

Some work right out of the box, some can be modified, some can even be used as Amiga HD-drives. See here:

Amiga Drive Compatibility (http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga%5Ffloppy%5Fcompatibility.html)

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: Aminux on March 29, 2006, 10:49:30 PM

 Thanks,this will greatly help me find a drive that works!

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: mrmkl on March 29, 2006, 11:18:27 PM

Besides Aminet, here is one hack:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/archyx/productions/projects/amiga_4-fdds/
In those cases in which you want to make an external drive (DF1..3 in A500) you need to store the motor control signal with a flip flop using drive select signal as clock.

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: CLS2086 on March 30, 2006, 09:13:09 AM

@humppa :
the list on the site is quite outdated, because these drives have yet around 6 up to 10 years old and are no more produced like they were ...
i still repair original Amiga drives  :rtfm:

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: orange on March 30, 2006, 09:30:01 AM

yes you can very easily modify floppy cable so that ANY PC HD FDD works as standard DD Amiga drive, it has been discussed millions of times before here, just do a little search.
just few wires should be swapped and you need one diode if planing to run NDOS games..

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: vk3heg on March 30, 2006, 01:16:01 PM

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humppa wrote:
Some work right out of the box, some can be modified, some can even be used as Amiga HD-drives. See here:

Amiga Drive Compatibility (http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga%5Ffloppy%5Fcompatibility.html)

I just happend to have two (what luck) of these drives at work in our striped/secondhand floppy pile:

Sony     MPF420-1     Yes     N/A     Has jumper grid for settings. To make it work, short pins 5 and 10, 11 and 6, 8 and 7, and 13 and 12. Also see: illustrated configuration.

Once I coverd the HD disk's extra hole, (would not detect disk change or presense of hd disk's. Amiga disk's were fine) the drive works great as an amiga drive... I'm really happy, as the drive on my A1200 was dead and I'd been looking for a replacement. I had a look at some of the items on aminet about moding a PC drive and none of them worked. This drive though was great as the change of jumpers is all that's needed..

BTW: They came out of junked IPEX P200 pc's..

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: humppa on March 31, 2006, 07:57:19 AM

There is another site which describes how to modify common PC floppy drives to make them work as Amiga DD/HD drives:

http://www.rabayjr.com/amiga_floppy_drives.htm

Unfortunately, it's in Portugese, but it's not too hard to understand because there are many pictures.

Title: Re: PC floppy on Amiga
Post by: BarrySWE on April 01, 2006, 02:01:46 PM

I have to PC floppies in my Amiga1200T, works great.. :)