Amiga floppy drives

[pyrre]

I have been wondering on something for quite some time;
These modern days we have the catweasel floppy controller that lets us use modern pc floppy drives to read and write amiga disks on pcs.
(if I'm mistaken, please correct me)

Is there any way of making a board that sits in between the floppy port (of any amiga) and a modern floppy drive. and that lets us use it for dd and hd floppies?
lets face it, the old drives are dying and there are not made any replacements. but cheap pc floppies are still in abundance.. (i have somewhat 20 drives collecting dust... though, some are broken)

[orange]

I have been wondering on something for quite some time;
These modern days we have the catweasel floppy controller that lets us use modern pc floppy drives to read and write amiga disks on pcs.
(if I'm mistaken, please correct me)

Is there any way of making a board that sits in between the floppy port (of any amiga) and a modern floppy drive. and that lets us use it for dd and hd floppies?
lets face it, the old drives are dying and there are not made any replacements. but cheap pc floppies are still in abundance.. (i have somewhat 20 drives collecting dust... though, some are broken)

IIRC, there is such a thing, check aminet. But Amiga external FDDs are not expensive, and you can easily replace its drive with standard PC one, after modifying READY signal, at least for DD.
HD is still overpriced, IMHO.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Unlike all the clowns lately who seem to think AmigaKit still has some miracle supply of NOS A1200's in stock, they DO in fact, still have new floppy drives available, for the princely sum of $24 each.  

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=294

 http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=106

[NovaCoder]

Who uses floppy drives these days?


Just stick all your games on either a solid state HD or go for a floppy emulator....job done

[klx300r]

Who uses floppy drives these days?


Just stick all your games on either a solid state HD or go for a floppy emulator....job done

now now Nova you've been around Amiga land long enough to know that we ALWAYS do things mainly 'because we like to and we can';)

[NovaCoder]

now now Nova you've been around Amiga land long enough to know that we ALWAYS do things mainly 'because we like to and we can';)

True

But floppies are too 'retro', even for me!

[danbeaver]

I have been wondering on something for quite some time;
These modern days we have the catweasel floppy controller that lets us use modern pc floppy drives to read and write amiga disks on pcs.
(if I'm mistaken, please correct me)

Is there any way of making a board that sits in between the floppy port (of any amiga) and a modern floppy drive. and that lets us use it for dd and hd floppies?
lets face it, the old drives are dying and there are not made any replacements. but cheap pc floppies are still in abundance.. (i have somewhat 20 drives collecting dust... though, some are broken)

Ian Stedman's adapter (http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/designs/Floppy_Adaptor/floppy_adaptor.html) will handle DD floppies.  There are older adapters that could do this with modified PC drives for HD disks.

Otherwise try to locate a Catweasel MKII (out of production now) and keep it safe!

[orange]

Who uses floppy drives these days?


Just stick all your games on either a solid state HD or go for a floppy emulator....job done

enjoy:
http://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/

[pyrre]

Ian Stedman's adapter (http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/designs/Floppy_Adaptor/floppy_adaptor.html) will handle DD floppies.  There are older adapters that could do this with modified PC drives for HD disks.

Otherwise try to locate a Catweasel MKII (out of production now) and keep it safe!

I see on his web page he has made a v3 of the adaptor. with experimental HD support. hopefully soon full hd support