Connecting a floppy-drive to the pc

[Thomas]

Connecting an Amiga drive to the PC will not help. The drives actually are the same, it's the controller which is different. The only way to write Amiga floppy disks on the PC is a Catweasel controller as mentioned above. You can use a standard PC floppy drive with it.

http://ami.ga/products/cwmk3_e.htm

However, you should be able to write ADFs to disk on a 512kb A500 with one of these:

http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c725/c72578/amiga/
http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/wartrans/

Bye,
Thomas