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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: lauri.lotvonen on April 05, 2011, 08:01:40 AM

Title: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: lauri.lotvonen on April 05, 2011, 08:01:40 AM

I kinda screwed up my external floppy drive as needed the db23 female connector from the pcb. The external drive does not even power up anymore (used to be working).

I bought the SD Floppy Emulator from Lotharek, installed it in my other A600 and it works fine.

I have two A600's and I'm wondering is there a way that I could read some adf's from the SD card on the other A600 and then copy them to a real floppy's using the vanilla A600 that I own? A cable between the two Mig's maybe?

And is there a way to make yourself an external floppy drive for classic Amigas's  (from 880kb drive)?

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: Franko on April 05, 2011, 08:19:17 AM

You could link the two via a NULL MODEM cable that you can either make yourself or buy one. And use something like PARnet or PROnet from AmiNet to transfer data between the two... :)

http://aminet.net/search?query=parnet

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-105

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: gertsy on April 05, 2011, 10:43:08 AM

PCMCIA Port with a PCMCIA CF Card Adaptor ?

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: Cammy on April 05, 2011, 03:10:00 PM

Although you could link up the Amigas with a serial null-modem cable or a ParNet cable, I think you would be better off using a PCMCIA card reader like one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/acer-5-in-1-PCMCIA-SD-MMC-SM-MS-MS-pro-Card-Reader-/300543852809?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item45f9cf4109#ht_2727wt_907

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: runequester on April 05, 2011, 04:30:16 PM

another vote for PCMCIA CF adapter. Very easy process.

Id only recommend null modem cable if you are below the age of 20.




Because when you are done transferring 5 disks, you'll be 30 years older :)

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: lauri.lotvonen on April 05, 2011, 06:56:00 PM

Ok, thanks for all the answers.

I think that it's easiest for me to get a new external floppy drive and write  adf's back to disk's from the A600 that has the SD Floppy Emulator.

It's a shame that I selled my Belkin null modem cable thinking that I would never use it again since I have networked my A1200...

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: lauri.lotvonen on April 05, 2011, 06:59:12 PM

Oh, just one question more :lol: :

Is there such a program that one could write adf's back to floppies from A600's hard drive?
I have couple of CF-IDE adapter's & CF card's lying around...

Title: Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
Post by: Franko on April 05, 2011, 07:26:46 PM

Quote from: lauri.lotvonen;628543

Oh, just one question more :lol: :

Is there such a program that one could write adf's back to floppies from A600's hard drive?
I have couple of CF-IDE adapter's & CF card's lying around...

Yup... this one... simple to use from the shell/cli... :)

http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/adfm_v2

There are plenty of other too on Aminet just enter ADF in the search box... :)