Can 1010 floppy drive be used as replacement Amiga 1000 internal floppy drive?

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I've done that as well, but it's not always exactly the same.
While the drive fit fine in mine.  Eject button lined up, etc...  All great.
But, the floppy cable plugged in at a slightly different place on the drive.
No biggie, except when I did that, my Insider II 1.5M RAM card no longer fit.
It would hit the floppy cable...

I eventually moved to a tomthul 4M RAM board, and that fits.

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Would it be possible to throw a PC floppy drive in a 1010/1011 shell and use it for crossdos or whatever to read PC flavoured disks?

If you're going to use crossdos, then you don't need a PC floppy drive.
The 1010/1011 will work.
In order to use a PC floppy, you'd have to mod it to work with an Amiga.

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I was just curious if there was some way to use an unmodified PC floppy drive to do the same thing, since Amiga floppy drives are getting harder to find/make.  I know it won't read Amiga floppies.

Probably.
What you miss with the unmodified drive is the ready / disk change type signals.
That causes problems with sensing disks being ejected/changed and with some copy protection.
But it would probably work for just using crossdos.
(And basic Amiga access also)
You might have to use the "diskchange df1:" command to get it to recognize a new disk...

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