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Hi, I’ve had one of the grey units for a while but I have never managed to get a working setup windows ps and working floppy drive. Every now and then I have another try but I’m bordering on throwing all my disks out ��. I’ve just revisited here after seeing the update video on...

Oh that’s interesting. Yes I used the pyAccess1581 project. I hadn’t realised the output files weren’t usable ��

Thanks for the reassurance. After finding a python version of Robert’s Amiga reader and using that on Linux I think it’s finally all working. The down side is I only manage to read data from one of my twenty Amiga disks. When I tried reading the same disk later it didn’t work. I’ll try again...

Did I break it? Did I break it? If the ribbon cable was plugged into the floppy drive the wrong way around would that damage the drive or the arduino. (asking for a friend :blink:)

Received but I forgot to ask you for the ribbon cable, doh.

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Hi, When using this technique on old dubious disks is there a best way of doing things. I’m thinking like try a couple of disks I don’t care about first just to make sure everything is sorted. Does the initial temperature of the disks make any difference to the success rate of...