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Subway USB + Floppy Adapter?
« on: December 16, 2017, 07:51:55 PM »
I bought one of these and am going to see if I can get it to work with the Subway in my A1200. Anybody know already what my results will be? I suspect at best there will likely be no driver for it, but perhaps, depending on how it is recognized, if at all, I may be able to put floppy parameters in there and use usbscsi.device.

Thoughts? Experience?
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Re: Subway USB + Floppy Adapter?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2017, 07:56:06 PM »
That being said, what do we need to be able to easily use 1.44MB floppy drives for both 880K and 1.76MB floppies? A new controller? I'd like to see some hardware that doesn't simply assume I am creating ADFs or IPFs or whatever the other formats are. If this USB thing doesn't work I'll throw it in my Ryzen which doesn't have a FDD header on the motherboard.

Ideal world, and I know the USB/Subway thing won't work since it isn't there on cold startup, I would like to see some adapter for internal Amigas that mates with modern floppy drives and translates the data to the Amiga as though it were reading DF0 or DF1.

I'm sure if it were this simple, however, it would have been done already.
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