Since the Commodore 1581 3.5" floppy drive is a re-programmable smart drive which uses the same drive mechanism as early Amigas (A1000, A1010 and maybe A500) - and since the 1581 can be made to read Double density PC disks, etc, can the 1581 be reprogrammed in software to read Amiga floppies?
I know there is software that will allow Amigas and even Windows PC's to read and write to a 1581 CBM-DOS floppy using the computer's internal 3.5" drive.
I already have a cable which allows me to hook real Commodore disk drives to my PC, so I'm wondering if it would be possible to write Amiga disks from disk images (.adf) to a real Amiga floppy (usable in a real Amiga) with the 1581 drive hooked to the PC (provided some software to do so exists).
From what I understand, the problem with PC floppies drives is that they are "dumb" and not re-programmable, so cannot be made to write/read AmigaDOS floppies....but in theory shouldn't hooking a re-programmable "smart" 1581 floppy to a PC overcome that hardware limitation and make it possible to write any sort of double-density format disk (Atari, Apple 800K, Amiga) provided software existed handle the new DOS format?
I'm aware of Catweasel and other projects that already exist...
EDIT: I've been reading that 1581 floppes are MFM formatted, and Amiga formatted disks are not - so maybe that's the limitation.
