15 Sep
2006
15 Sep
'06
4:40 p.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
> cheers
> Jules
>
I don't think anything else used the external
floppy connector. The Vidi Amiga (capture TV/video i
mage on the Amiga), Turbo Sound whatsit
(I forget it's name but does the same as Vidi
Amiga, but for sound) and the hand scanner
I have all used the serial or parallel port to
connect to my Amiga.
Yes, you can connect 3 external disk drives.
The drives are known as DF0: (internal) and
DF1: to DF3: (external) by the system.
You can also (theoretically) have 4 harddrives
connected aswell, or (like I have) one large
one split into 4 partitions. Known as DH0: to
DH3: unless you leave them unmodified (like I
had) in which case they will be known as TDH0:
to TDH3:
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
Teo Zenios wrote:
> I got an ebay find in the mail today, an externa
l
floppy drive with a
> port for another floppy. The odd thing about th
is
drive is that the cable
> going to it is 25 pin while the connector on th
e
back for an additional
.
drive is the normal 23 pin variety.
That is odd. Did anything other than an external
floppy drive ever use the
Amiga's floppy connector? If so, I wonder if they
did it that way because the
25-way connector saved a bit of money, but they
still wanted to present a
23-way connector to the 'outside world' for
compatibility. Actually, didn't
the Amiga support four floppy drives anyway, so
maybe the 23-way is there for
plugging in additional drives from other vendors.. > snip <<