Odd external Amiga floppy drive - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Sep 2006

 --- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
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  wrote: 
 Teo Zenios wrote:
 > I got an ebay find in the mail today, an externa l
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  floppy drive with a 
  > port for another floppy. The odd thing about th is
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  drive is that the cable
  > going to it is 25 pin while the connector on th e
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  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.. .
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 > snip << 
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   > cheers
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   > 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