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Offline danbeaver

Re: Dual Floppy Drives inside a1200t?
« on: September 06, 2012, 03:32:23 AM »
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Offline danbeaver

Re: Dual Floppy Drives inside a1200t?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2012, 03:39:52 AM »
Depending on the OS you are using you can map a DF2 to a DF1 (or for that matter an SD0 or RAD) using the DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg program that when processed by SetPatch will setup these associations. I use it to map DF1 to my SD0 and my parallel.device to my lpr.device. I could give more specifics but I'm in bed typing this on my iPhone while a big white cat sits on my chest.

The instructions are listed in NSDPatch.cfg file; it is in text that is parsed into mapping functions.  I know it works in OS 3.9 and 4.1 but I use the other OS so little I don't know about them.  It works so well that other programs never know that the device is being mapped elsewhere.  Example, ADF-Blitz only uses physical drives DF0 to DF3, but my A4000 has only one floppy drive, so I mount a SD0 disk (easier to get rid of than RAD0 and map it as DF1; simply renaming it to DF1 will not work, but the remap does.
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Offline danbeaver

Re: Dual Floppy Drives inside a1200t?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2012, 11:19:30 AM »
Astral's solution will work; you could pick up a set of 23-pin sockets off *Bay and with ribbon cable make your own cable to floppy drive. You would need to check a schematic of the "pin out" but that is easy to find. The ribbon cables just push onto the connector with the backplate, and I believe it is a one-to-one connection.