Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:73697 comp.sys.amiga.tech:16774 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ULKYVX.BITNET!jcjust01 From: jcjust01@ULKYVX.BITNET (J. Crazyrat Justen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy drive? Message-ID: <1jcjust01@ULKYVX.bitnet> Date: 6 Dec 90 21:31:00 GMT References: <1823@harlie.tegra.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 50 In article <1823@harlie.tegra.COM> nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin) writes: > >In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu ( >> >>What exactly do you DO with one of these? >>I've only seen 1 1020 my entire life. >> >>use them for c: space? (Hay i could do that!) >>$199 seems a little high. >> > >I actually have *two* of these beauties! Both were originally purchased >for use with the Transformer (and came with the Transformer software). >Back in my pre-hard disk days, I used one of them quite effectively as >a 3rd Amiga drive (actually, a half a drive, giving me 2.5 drives). >I put ARP on it and assigned C: to it. It made a very usable system >(1.5 Meg RAM, Facc II, VD0:) that I could use for C development. > On the same note, it is very easy to adapt any 5.25" drive to be used with the amiga. I have a similar setup to the person above, but instead of a half-height, 1020 or whatever, I am using a 360K full-height XT drive. The design is relatively the same as the hh, except this drive mounts perfectly into the XT case that I have sitting underneath my desk. Also in this case is a power supply and (hopefully soon a hard drive) a 3.5" drive which is used as an external as well giving me 2 external 3.5"s and 1 5.25" external to use for my ARP: dir. This makes development on a 3 meg, faccii, vd0: even that much easier. One thing I have not been able to figure out tho, is how to use that 2nd full-height 5.25" in the XT case. Does anyone out there know if the Amiga can drive more than 1 5.25" drive and how can it be done? Apparently, the 5.25" drive can only be the LAST drive on the chain. I guess this is a problem with trackdisk, so is there any way to work around this? I talked to a fellow-hacker/developer who said there was a PD device that could be used called T-disk.device that was essentially trackdisk but into an external driver. Could this be used to mount more than 1 5.25" floppy? Any insight from anyone? Joel P.S. To cut down on thread length, please direct e-mail toward me and I will try to post a summary of what we figure out. ----------------------------------------- /\ JCJUST01@ulkyvx.bitnet \ //_\ crazyrat@disk.uucp Only \X/ \miga!!