Floppy replacement - USB to FDD?

[Coolhand]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/720Kb-DD-Double-Density-Floppy-Disk-Drive-to-USB-Converter-Emulator-/181120966004?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Automation_Control_ET

I think the price is a bit of a rip, and there are specific custom devices that do this but does anyone own one of these? They seem to be quite cheap from Kong Hong.

It's clearly not designed for it, but is there any way this might work in Amiga?

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heres one in slightly bromine-y off white... and cheaper than a replacement floppy even.  I guess its bound to not work or everyone would be doing it, but at the very least you'd have to remove the front or something to make it fit wedge cases.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5-720K-USB-SSD-FLOPPY-DRIVE-EMULATOR-E100S-720k-Milky-Yellow-Color-Version-/230919705269?pt=UK_Computing_FloppyDiskDrives_SM

[Coolhand]

I know about those, and while i'm not putting that down, it always seemed a lot for the job they do - they're 4 times the cost of the device I linked to and tbh, I don't really *need* one;).  I haven't seen anyone trying them out so I guess there's a good reason why the more massively produced alternative isn't used.

I also wonder though (and i'm sure there's a good answer along the lines of 'no'), is it possible to do more with such a device, by putting *something* between the floppy connector and a large storage device and doing more general types of file access via the floppy connector?

[Coolhand]

....Though you perhaps don't need many of those features for just accessing a few amiga disks.

I cant comment on the quality of either, I've had some cheap crap off ebay thats been great, and some that is just crap... do you own either one of them?

Anyway they're well covered already, I'm not putting anyones product down or judging it based on a price but obviously the cheaper device is more accessible to more people...

[Coolhand]

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heres one in slightly bromine-y off white... and cheaper than a replacement floppy even.  I guess its bound to not work or everyone would be doing it, but at the very least you'd have to remove the front or something to make it fit wedge cases.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5-720K-USB-SSD-FLOPPY-DRIVE-EMULATOR-E100S-720k-Milky-Yellow-Color-Version-/230919705269?pt=UK_Computing_FloppyDiskDrives_SM

[Coolhand]

Well the eBay listing you gave is 50 quid and the HxC floppy emulator is 69 Euros which is roughly 50 quid too.

http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=13

69 eur is nearly 60 quid today, and more like 65-70 delivered... (to the UK, presumably) the one from hong kong is just shy of 20 delivered to the UK.  

tbh i'm more interested in whether it works at all or learning why it wouldn't.

[Coolhand]

joke if you will but even £20 is still a lot of money to some people...! I have spent enough on amiga stuff this month anyway;) Thankyou for that info, so its not simply a matter of a modification or a converter or something - it would be asking more than the el cheapo floppy emulator is capable of... in that case would it even work with a dos emulator or crossdos to read pc disk?

[Coolhand]

http://coolhandtech.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/cheapo-amiga-floppy-emulator-inbound.html

Despite the nay-saying, A guy in France named "HM" has made this work and shared the solution, great stuff!