Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer (V2)

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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:)
 
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_500 said:
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:)
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I've put cable wrong way plenty of times, at least for me it has not damaged devices.
 
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 with another disk drive when I can get hold of one. Thanks all for answering my frustrations over such a long time.
 
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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 with another disk drive when I can get hold of one. Thanks all for answering my frustrations over such a long time.
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What python version are you referring to? AFAIK there is no such thing available. Only python version that I've seen is the forked pyAccess1581-project for C64 .D81 image reading which uses the same hardware, but that project will _not_ make working Amiga .ADF's.
 
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Oh that’s interesting. Yes I used the pyAccess1581 project. I hadn’t realised the output files weren’t usable ��
 
Hi Jonni,

I'd like to upgrade mine to v2.4 https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ADFReaderWriter24.zip Do I have to put a jumper on the "flash" pins before uploading v2.4 sketch file with Arduino IDE? . if not was it the purpose of the Flash pins? Thanks!

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I've seem to have missplaced my idc connector bag, so it will be a couple week delay before these are available again. I've just ordered new batch of connectors from Ali.
 
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have reached agreement with jonni i am waiting for delivery as payment has now been made. Thanks jonni!
 
Hi Jonni, could you get in touch, I don't seem to have any contact details for you anymore and I obviously don't have enough "street cred" to PM you. Want to update you on some exciting updates coming to the firmware soon...!
 
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Hi Jonni, could you get in touch, I don't seem to have any contact details for you anymore and I obviously don't have enough "street cred" to PM you. Want to update you on some exciting updates coming to the firmware soon...!
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Replied my contact details in pm.
 
If this Floppy Reader/Writer is still available, then I would be interested!
How long does it take to read a disk to ADF, and how long to write an ADF to disk?
(sorry if this has been answered before...don't have time to read all 18 pages... ;) )
 
Overdoc said:
If this Floppy Reader/Writer is still available, then I would be interested!
How long does it take to read a disk to ADF, and how long to write an ADF to disk?
(sorry if this has been answered before...don't have time to read all 18 pages... ;) )
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Sure I have these available still. reading and writing times depends on on disk quality and if there is verify on or off.
Reading a disk usually is under a minute and writing with verity on úsually takes about 2m30s.

I do also build Greaseweazle F1 devices and on those adf disk read is under 50s and disk write is around 2m05s.
 
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