Has anyone tried this USB drive thingy ?

[dougal]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5-720KB...SetTopBoxes&hash=item4163e41fdf#ht_3783wt_698

Looks interesting

 

[TheCorfiot]

Good find there my friend.

Now who wants to give it a go

TC

 

[dougal]

Good find there my friend.

Now who wants to give it a go

TC

I will... Just bought it :nuts:

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46 Euros it aint cheap so it better work

 

[status]

Sorry mate, but it will propably wont work..

http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga_floppy_compatibility.html

 

[dougal]

Sorry mate, but it will propably wont work..

http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga_floppy_compatibility.html

Maybe not out of the box, but it seems to have lots of jumpers. I am pretty sure it can be set to be compatible.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

I looked into these a while ago...

My conclusions were:

First, isn't the Amiga 800 odd kb not 720 like pcs?

Second, the 1.44mb version is cheaper.

Finally, it doesn't parse files. You put in a different USB stick for each "floppy"

It writes directly to the USB stick, not a file on the stick. So even if you put a 4gb stock in it, you will still only get 720kb


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[dougal]

You think i f'd up here ?

 

[Bad_Ad84]

I'd have probably bought the 1.44mb if any.

Information about how it stores data is limited, they don't mention it in the auctions. I had to do google research.

I came to the conclusion that it was worth spending the extra and getting the hxc


Here is the limited info in the suction you bought that kina agrees with my findings -

"Use general U disk, need to use software to format 1.44M space.


I think they are intended for sewing machines etc, where you aren't changing disks all the time, but want reliability of usb



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[mfilos]

Bad_Ad84 is right.
I have seen such drives some years ago for industrial uses. It's can be used as 1.44MB and 720KB floppy disk drive and whatever USB you put to it, it will see it as a Floppy Disk drive.
This means that for an standard Windows 3.1 installations... you'd need 6x USB sticks

 

[Ed.D]

I saw these about a year ago but they were a lot more expensive then.

I wonder if a USB drive could be partitioned into 720K, 800K chunks ?!?! Would probably have to toggle the "removable bit" first to make it look like a hard drive.

 

[Jeff_HxC2001]

Thing to know for all Amiga users about these USB Floppy Emulator :

This is a sector based floppy emulator, not a track based floppy emulator.
The sector are encoded(read)/decoded(write) in real time from the USB Key sectors.

The problem is that the sectors are IBM/ISO sectors type (PC and compatible), and not AmigaDOS sectors.

So even with a lot of jumpers it will be hard to get these usb floppy emulator working on Amiga.

 

[status]

Thing to know for all Amiga users about these USB Floppy Emulator :

This is a sector based floppy emulator, not a track based floppy emulator.
The sector are encoded(read)/decoded(write) in real time from the USB Key sectors.

The problem is that the sectors are IBM/ISO sectors type (PC and compatible), and not AmigaDOS sectors.

So even with a lot of jumpers it will be hard to get these usb floppy emulator working on Amiga.

In theory the amiga could just read it as a pcformated floopy "pc-dos".

 

[Zetr0]

in short you would need an adapter (like Stedy's FDD adapter) for this to work with the Amiga, and even then you would be limited to 720K.

I do not know if the 1.44mb varient will actually work as a 1.44mb PC Drive on the Amiga, to be honest I have my doubts.

 

[dougal]

I think i see myself re-listing this on ebay for half the price i bought it.