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Re: PC Floppy modifying to use with Amiga500
« on: March 19, 2012, 02:52:14 PM »
Okay, I've removed this once already, but I'm pretty certain the FZ-357 is a native Amiga drive.  Then I remembered the 354s, then I got hella confused.  So, I present this page in my defense/for the prosecution:

http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga_floppy_compatibility.html

Ah, if only "modern" floppy drives were so easy configure (look at all those jumpers.)

Mind you, things are going to get rougher as time goes on and floppy drives are not so easy to come across.
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Re: PC Floppy modifying to use with Amiga500
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 03:00:43 PM »
Quote from: SilverZguru;684397
Whoa! Didn't know that! Odd, that my PC's floppy drive was Chinon. I knew that the Chinon brand is used in Amiga, but I didn't know that this is the same model! Incredible! But, this one IS HD floppy drive! How can amiga's FD be HD?? And then how to place the jumpers, that it works correctly in Amiga?

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-Eemil


Amiga supports HD floppies, just that the Amiga drives ran at 1/2 speed when using an HD disk as Paula can't handle the doubled data rate of HD media.  I use HD drives in all of my Amiga units (500+, 1000, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000.)