HD floppy hw solution?

[Ral-Clan]

(I was looking for a thread I remember in the later months by someone who was working on new small projects and who I think was looking for ideas)

Has there ever been a gadget that interfaces between an hd floppy drive and a standard Amiga and does MFM en/decoding on the fly?
You would need a completely new driver of course, that doesn't send the data in/out in MFM format, but that is an idea that has already been used by a networking product (which names fails me atm).
If you got really creative you could make a new trackdisk.device that handles both cases.

Not sure if it's MFM but try Googling the Power Computing Power XL HD Floppy.  It came with an interface that plugged into the back of HD PC floppy drives and allowed them to be used with Amigas.

[Ral-Clan]

I recall the day I went into the computer shop complaining about the lack of space on a DD disk and I was sold the XL drive and never really used anything else. They look exactly the same as a normal floppy and I have managed to get a couple thinking they were just your normal drive. They are a bit slow I have to say.

I think this is what you are talking about.. Just works as a HD drive.

There is an internal version as well, which is what I have.  It looks to me like the extra circuit board that attached to the back of the (Sony made) PC HD floppy drive could be attached to any HD floppy drive (I have tested it with other PC drives in DD mode and it did work. I never had the opportunity to test it with other PC drives in HD mode).