Floppy expander?

[Brian]

A friend of my got this Elbox PowerTower (A1200) system and in it was some sort of small card sitting on the floppyconnector that the floppycable was then attached to. The Amiga floppy work great without this hardware but when it's connected it doesn't so this pritty much ruled out being a buffer to support longer floppycable in the tower. I then thought it might be something to support PC drives in the tower but this proved not to be the case either. Last thing I can think of is that it make the A1200 support Amiga HD diskdrives but I have no way of testing this and if it was so shouldn't a Amiga DD diskdrive work with it aswell? I can't find it on either of the two big Amiga hardware databases so I'm at a loss here.

So now I ask you out there.. do you know what it is and how it's suppose to work?

[Brian]

Could be any of the two but I think it's the latter since the card doesn't fit in the wrong way around and the cable was tested both ways with the PC drive we had to make sure it wasn't that which made the drive not work.

So what you say is tha the Escom adaptor only work with Panasonic PC HD diskdrives? That might explain why it didn't work with the PC diskdrive of another brand that we tried it with.

[Brian]

That picture show exactly what we got here.

[Brian]

Heh... useless hardware then... it's not in use as we have a real Amiga drive with the tower instead.