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Offline ProtekTopic starter

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Build 1.5 Mb disk drive?
« on: October 22, 2005, 06:14:58 PM »
I've been playing with an idea of building an external 1.5 Mb disk drive for my 500. There used to be external 1.5 Mb disk drives available back in the good old days. How does it differ from the 800 kb external unit, especially controllerwise? Are there still any HD drive mechanisms on the market that support disk change? Is there schematics available for the controller?
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Re: Build 1.5 Mb disk drive?
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2005, 07:26:31 AM »
I read an article about AmigaExpo in a 1990 Mikrobitti magazine (iirc). In the article there were 1.5 Mb external drives from Rossmöller and some other manufacturer. The reason I've interested in this is that DD floppies are quite hard to come by nowadays and HD floppies formatted with Amiga drives aren't quite reliable based on my experiences.
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A4000/040 3.1/3.1, 2 MB Chip, 24 MB Fast, Piccolo SD64 2MB, GVP A2000mHC+8 Rev2, 4 GB CF HD via CF IDE
A1200 3.1/3.9, Blizzard 1230MkIV 030@50 with SCSI kit, 2 MB Chip, 128 MB Fast, 1 GB CF HD via CF IDE
A600 3.1/3.1, 2 MB Chip, A603, 1GB CF HD via CF IDE
 
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