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Offline lauri.lotvonenTopic starter

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Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« on: April 05, 2011, 08:01:40 AM »
I kinda screwed up my external floppy drive as needed the db23 female connector from the pcb. The external drive does not even power up anymore (used to be working).

I bought the SD Floppy Emulator from Lotharek, installed it in my other A600 and it works fine.

I have two A600's and I'm wondering is there a way that I could read some adf's from the SD card on the other A600 and then copy them to a real floppy's using the vanilla A600 that I own? A cable between the two Mig's maybe?

And is there a way to make yourself an external floppy drive for classic Amigas's  (from 880kb drive)?
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 08:19:17 AM »
You could link the two via a NULL MODEM cable that you can either make yourself or buy one. And use something like PARnet or PROnet from AmiNet to transfer data between the two... :)

http://aminet.net/search?query=parnet

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-105
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 10:43:08 AM »
PCMCIA Port with a PCMCIA CF Card Adaptor ?
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 03:10:00 PM »
Although you could link up the Amigas with a serial null-modem cable or a ParNet cable, I think you would be better off using a PCMCIA card reader like one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/acer-5-in-1-PCMCIA-SD-MMC-SM-MS-MS-pro-Card-Reader-/300543852809?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item45f9cf4109#ht_2727wt_907
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A1200 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/FPU/RTC/KS3.0/IDE-CF+2GB/S-Video
CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2011, 04:30:16 PM »
another vote for PCMCIA CF adapter. Very easy process.

Id only recommend null modem cable if you are below the age of 20.




Because when you are done transferring 5 disks, you'll be 30 years older :)
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 06:56:00 PM »
Ok, thanks for all the answers.

I think that it's easiest for me to get a new external floppy drive and write  adf's back to disk's from the A600 that has the SD Floppy Emulator.

It's a shame that I selled my Belkin null modem cable thinking that I would never use it again since I have networked my A1200...
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2011, 06:59:12 PM »
Oh, just one question more :lol: :

Is there such a program that one could write adf's back to floppies from A600's hard drive?
I have couple of CF-IDE adapter's & CF card's lying around...
« Last Edit: April 05, 2011, 06:59:37 PM by lauri.lotvonen »
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).
 

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Re: Copying floppy's from A600 to A600
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2011, 07:26:46 PM »
Quote from: lauri.lotvonen;628543
Oh, just one question more :lol: :

Is there such a program that one could write adf's back to floppies from A600's hard drive?
I have couple of CF-IDE adapter's & CF card's lying around...


Yup... this one... simple to use from the shell/cli... :)

http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/adfm_v2

There are plenty of other too on Aminet just enter ADF in the search box... :)