HD floppy disks on Amiga 500

[humppa]

@rockape:

This guy was asking about using DD-formatted PC-disks in an Amiga. He was not asking how to use a PC disk drive in an Amiga.

[alexh]

You might need to cover the HD hole up to make it work as a 720k DD disk on a PC.

[humppa]

@alexh

Err, this also has been said before. Is somebody reading this thread or are you just looking at the subject before posting?

[_ThEcRoW]

For games, i use hd disks without taping the hole and they work perfectly(writing and adf image to the floppy with a catweasel), but for working with the disk at os level, i.e working with files, etc.. you may tape the hole, if not you may encounter problems of read/write errors and that. There is no other trouble with hd disks. I have been using this type of disks since i bought my catweasel and i have no problems. I'm using a REV 6A A500 with 1mb ram(512+512) with the standard chinon drive and using the 1.3 rom.

[luis_pt]

the main point is really the games.
making no plans of using amiga for important work!

there is any place where i can get DD floppy disks?

[PaSha]

@humppa

@rockape:

This guy was asking about using DD-formatted PC-disks in an Amiga. He was not asking how to use a PC disk drive in an Amiga.

We know... and this is exactly what rockape is talking about...

humppa wrote:
@alexh

Err, this also has been said before. Is somebody reading this thread or are you just looking at the subject before posting?

Hmmmm.... reading the thread... good suggestion...

Anyways, no offence intended or anything like that, but eh, you could perhaps read the thread before posting yourself?

And back to topic: You might find DD disks on eBay or some amiga-ish webshops, but for games... just use HD disks formatted as DD. It should work for a while, and if the disk fails, just write a new one from the .adf

-Paul

[rockape]

Hi,


See:  AmigaKit in the UK


http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=28&osCsid=14f3540e3a871d998a663be4e2411857


"10 X AMIGA FORMATTED FLOPPY DISKS DSDD  product code: FDMAMI001 In Stock Now  £3.99"




You could also try:


USA

www.softhut.com



Germany

www.vesalia.de




Regards, Michael

aka rockape


Amiga A4000/Cybervision643d/HypercomZ3




My other computer is a development AmigaOne (µ-A1-C) running Amiga OS4 pre-release 3.

AND it ROXXXXX !!!!!

[humppa]

PaSha wrote: We know... and this is exactly what rockape is talking about...

Nope he wasn't. After my post, he edited his thread though and removed the copy&paste stuff about "soldering and jumpering pc-diskdrives to get them working in Amigas".

@rockape: Could you maybe try posting without 5 empty lines between each text-line? Thanks!

[rockape]

yes sir !!!

will do !!!

lines close enough ?

Blimey a bloke cant get it wright sometimes

Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[PaSha]

humppa wrote:

PaSha wrote: We know... and this is exactly what rockape is talking about...

Nope he wasn't. After my post, he edited his thread though and removed the copy&paste stuff about "soldering and jumpering pc-diskdrives to get them working in Amigas".

In that case, please accept my humble apologies.
 :pint:

-Paul

[humppa]

PaSha wrote:
In that case, please accept my humble apologies.
:pint:

You're welcome!  :pint:  :-)
In fact I was wondering why no note shows up in the thread when somebody has been editing. At least thats what I am used to from other forums.

[Effy]

And what about an external high density drive ?? I used to have slimline black one that worked fine on my A500+ ...

[Eclipse]

Ebay is cool :-)
Clicky for stuff

I used to format my cover disks and use them. How I wish now that I'd kept those pieces of history.

[RiP]

Is it really risky to use HD floppies such as Maxell in Amiga 2000?
I had no problem before, all I need is to reformat them with Workbench.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is it really risky to use HD floppies such as Maxell in Amiga 2000?
I had no problem before, all I need is to reformat them with Workbench.

You're talking about formatting HD disks as DD?  Yes.

[midway]

I have a ton of them, if you are in the USA PM me