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Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

High density floppydrive on A2000?
« on: January 18, 2016, 05:35:49 PM »
Is there a high density floppy drive that will work on an A2000 or was that a feature limited to the 3000 and 4000?
In relation to this question will an older Dell PC floppy drive work? I just want to be able to read the PC formatted 1.4K high density floppies so could it be placed in the second drive bay?
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: High density floppydrive on A2000?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2016, 06:16:00 PM »
Will the Chinon FZ357 work? or must it have the "a" in the model number?
« Last Edit: January 18, 2016, 07:11:19 PM by tonyvdb »
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: High density floppydrive on A2000?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2016, 07:06:50 PM »
Ok but the Chinon FZ357A is the model thats in the A4000 I have. The one I found on line is a Chinon FZ357 Missing the "a" in the model number and I found another that was is an FG not FZ

Ok, turns out the FZ357 can be made to work.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=9365
« Last Edit: January 18, 2016, 07:26:59 PM by tonyvdb »
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: High density floppydrive on A2000?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2016, 08:30:31 PM »
Quote from: psxphill;802432


If someone reverse engineered the FB357 and FB357A then it's possible you could figure out how to modify one into the other. It might involve designing a new board which might be a good project for kickstarter.


This would be a great project for Amigakit?
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.
 

Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: High density floppydrive on A2000?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2016, 03:51:19 AM »
Well, I guess the next thing for me to look for is a proper Amiga floppy HD drive, amigakit says they have some stock pending but that could be months or years away. They are as rare as a reasonably priced 4000T
Amiga 2000HD Indivision ECS
Amiga 4000D towerised OS 3.1 and 3.9 on CF cards
Indivision AGA, Mediator 4000
Video Toaster 4000 Flyer v4.3 Millenium.
202gig of video drive space & 5gig audio.