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PC floppy on Amiga
« on: March 29, 2006, 08:41:17 PM »
  Can i use a PC floppy on Amiga?Do modern floppies work?
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #1 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.
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I also repair drives of our old beloved Amiga
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #2 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
A3040/25 AmigaOS 3.9
A1260BPPC AmigaOS 3.9/4.0
Sam440ep AmigaOS 4.1.2
PegasosII/G3 AmigaOS 4.1.2/MorphOS 2.7/Debian 5.0.7/SUSE 11.1
MacMini/G4 1.5 MorphOS 2.7/OSX 10.5.8
Long Live Amiga

If i am going to have bugs on my system,
at least let me keep the latest versions.
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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #3 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!
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #4 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
A3040/25 AmigaOS 3.9
A1260BPPC AmigaOS 3.9/4.0
Sam440ep AmigaOS 4.1.2
PegasosII/G3 AmigaOS 4.1.2/MorphOS 2.7/Debian 5.0.7/SUSE 11.1
MacMini/G4 1.5 MorphOS 2.7/OSX 10.5.8
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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #5 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
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2006, 10:49:30 PM »

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

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #7 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.
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #8 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:
Keep the Faith !
VG 5000/A1000/500/500+/600/2000/CDTV/1200PPC-GREX/1200PPC -ATEO-BV/4060D/CD32/Aone/Peg 1/Peg2 G4/ various funny machines too  :-) http://www.mo5.com/collection/index.php?pseudo=CLS2086
I also repair drives of our old beloved Amiga
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #9 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..
Better sorry than worry.
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2006, 01:16:01 PM »
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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


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..
Amiga 3000: Towered, 12Mb Ram, 9Gig SCSI Hd, Retina BLT Z3, X-Surf, OS3.1
Amiga 4000D: Warp Engine \'040 40Mhz, 150mb Ram, CyberVision 64/4, X-Surf, OS3.9
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #11 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.
 

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Re: PC floppy on Amiga
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2006, 02:01:46 PM »
I have to PC floppies in my Amiga1200T, works great.. :)
(Amiga 1200T rev 1D.4 with 3.1 rom) (Blizzard 1240 / 44MHz with 128 MB Ram 30Mips) (3Com PCMCIA NIC on V-Adapter) (Omega Project\\\'s Sound Enhancer) (10GB Seagate HD with Smart Filesystem) (NEC-3500 DVD-RW) (4-way IDE adapter) (Logitech PS/2 optical mou...