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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Jose on March 20, 2004, 03:44:34 PM

Title: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: Jose on March 20, 2004, 03:44:34 PM

Was wondering if there are any substitutes available that would use the Floppey port, and have a bigger storage...?

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: amipal on March 20, 2004, 04:43:11 PM

Which floppy port do you mean (i.e. the one on the back of the Amiga, or on the motherboard)?
You could place a Zip drive or LS120 drive in the space where the floppy drive would go, but IIRC both these solutions are IDE or SCSI.

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: Karlos on March 20, 2004, 04:48:04 PM

@Jose

Not exactly a storage device, but Patrik has an interesting project he's been looking into that would make use of the external floppy port...

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: NightShade737 on March 20, 2004, 06:08:26 PM

Which is what?

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: Jose on March 20, 2004, 06:09:21 PM

@amipal
I mean the motherboard floppy port

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: sir_inferno on March 20, 2004, 08:08:15 PM

in my CUamiga magazine they had special external :-( disk drives that had loads of storage [miscalaneos format] 1.22megs 2.5megs 3.6megs etc.

donno if anyone bought them/still has them  :-(

Title: Re: Floppy drive substitutes for the floppy port?
Post by: Jose on March 21, 2004, 02:24:29 AM

@ sir_inferno

With normal HD disks?