5.25" disk drive

[Desmon]

@Ilwrath wrote:

@erol-
There were, indeed 5.25" floppy drives for the Amiga...  I don't remember the specifics, but I remember seeing one in a 2000, and there was also an external model planned (and built?) for the Amiga 500/1000, even.  What do you think the command
c:diskchange is for???  3.5" floppies auto-sense a disk swap, you know...

The 5.25" drives for the A2000 were all PC drives. C= in their wisdom actually made an A1020 drive for the A1000 (I have one here) and it's the thing that needs the "C:DiskChange" command. A mountlist isn't needed if the media itself is formatted to the Amiga OFS (or FFS now that I think about it) standard.

There were even a few third-party 5.25" drives manufatured, and every one I've ever seen does exactly as the C= unit did.

[Desmon]

@Burseg

I'm seriously looking for information on how to read, or even format disks with this device.

C:DiskChange will be your friend.

Most 5.25" drives don't recognise the Amiga "diskinsert" message and the OS has to be told to look at the drive again to ascertain the volume name and other data.
Make sure the DiskChange command is in your C: directory and enter it into a shell window.

1.> DiskChange DF1:

should do the trick..

[Desmon]

@Kronos

Mine didn't need a diskchange command as someone had wisely
clued a small push-button to the closing-knob of the drive
(on the inside of course). The button was connected to the
diskchange-signal on the floppy-port .... voila !

And that the way I bought "brand new", a nice little left over
from East-Germany's IT-industry.

That's a nice little addition. I wonder why nobody else came up with this for the third party drives sold out here?