Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!mmdf From: OHA101%URIACC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (F. Michael Theilig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: (none) Message-ID: <10597@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 10 Mar 89 23:46:11 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 33 Dave Lowrey writes: > Stupid question time: :-) > I have a Commodore 1581 disk drive. This is the 3.5" drive for the 64/128. > Since it is hooked up to a serial-type bus, it has alot of intelligence > that in not required from "normal" drives. >I wondered if it is at all possible to hack it up so that it can be used > as an external drive on my amiga 2500. > Thanks....... If what you mean is that you want to use the 1581 as another floppy for Amiga software, I would have to say not likely. If you built your own interface (not too big of a job) and wrote your your own driver for it (bigger job) you could possibly get to use it as SOMETHING. Just better that 800k and comparatively slow speed. I doubt you could ever read Amiga disks, and possibly not even C64 disks. I expect that this would be a BIG project and not worth the time and money spent. If you do choose to do this, I would be interested as to how it came out. Fred Theilig OHA101 at URIACC.Bitnet /------------------------------------------------------------------ | Frederick M. Theilig OHA101@URIACC.Bitnet | | | | Computer Science The University of Rhode Island at Kingston | ------------------------------------------------------------------/