Gotek and bridgeboard

[Motormouth]

Has anyone ever attempted to use a Gotek and a bridgeboard??  What about the internal "amiga" floppy connector, the internal "PC" floppy connector, or external "amiga" floppy connector?

What about 720k? or 1.44 Meg? images.  (I would guess that the 1.44 Meg would only work on a "PC" connector.)

What about version of bridgeboards?  A2386SX, A2286, or A2088XT, or Vortex?

Also how would one make a PC floppy image for use in such a configuration.  Catweasel?  Would the "pc" dos image mount on a amiga compatible Gotek on an amiga floppy connector?

Is not a native Gotek drive PC compatible?  Could it work on the internal "PC" Floppy connector?  How would one access disk images in such a configuration?

[Motormouth]

My .02 cents worth - the PC and Amiga floppy connectors are different. You would have to decide which floppy type it was going to be connected to, and stick with it. Modifying a Gotek to use a different floppy connector is not a trivial task.

Amiga HD drives are actually supported in 2.1 onwards, maybe 2.04 as well, The issue was getting the drives, the Amiga could take them and use them automatically from an early date, straight replacement. They weren't that popular as few Amigas actually had the drives, so they were not very swappable between Amigas. Even HD disks formatted as DD disks didn't work reliably in DD drives anyway. Usually you had to do multiple attempts to get the data, and sometimes they just would not read at all.

I guess, wired up as PC style floppy drive, it should work fine with a Bridgeboard, but you are right, the issue is reading and writing data to PC floppy images. Not a clue on that front, you would need to ask a PC person who used such drives what software was good with a Gotek. Quite possibly just reading to and writing from A: might do the trick, on a BB like PC.

Thanks for the reply Pat the Cat.  you make some very interesting points.

I guess there are three very specific questions I am asking.  Can the amiga moddel gotek mount 1.44 or 720K PC disks under Amiga OS 2.0+

1)  I has anyone attempted mount a PC disk image on an Amiga configured Gotek either with cross-dos, etc one the amiga or as a shared amiga drive with an A2386/A2286 using the 34 pin shared drive cable.  

2)  Has anyone attempted to mount a PC image and use an Amiga configured Gotek drive on the 23 pin external port of the A2088XT or A2386 ie an Gotek in an external Amiga compatible case.

3)  Has anyone attempted to use a PC the standard Gotek configuration (not amiga modded) on the PC floppy connector from a bridge board, How about an amiga modded drive on the bridgeboard