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USB floppy disk?
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:17 pm
by icbrkr
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this - but is it possible to mount a USB floppy drive under 4.1?
Re: USB floppy disk?
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:40 pm
by Raziel
Most of todays USB devices come either with a driver on it's hardware or with a software driver.
The latter won't work since the software won't run.
IF it features a hardware driver AND mounts itself as some kind of (slow) mass storage device, it *could* be possible to use (read/write - albeit i doubt it will support any of amiga's special floppy methods).
Normally i'd go with "No", since there is no USB driver"
Re: USB floppy disk?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:40 pm
by Amigo1
icbrkr wrote:I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this - but is it possible to mount a USB floppy drive under 4.1?
luckily I found a drive an was abler to test it. The result:
it does work on x1000 with a TEAC UFD-03 external Floppy Drive Unit.
It does not read floppies from the "Classic" Commodore Amiga 68k-hardware-Era formatted floppies however.
so we learned something new today..
Re: USB floppy disk?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:08 pm
by icbrkr
Amigo1 wrote:icbrkr wrote:I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this - but is it possible to mount a USB floppy drive under 4.1?
luckily I found a drive an was abler to test it. The result:
it does work on x1000 with a TEAC UFD-03 external Floppy Drive Unit.
It does not read floppies from the "Classic" Commodore Amiga 68k-hardware-Era formatted floppies however.
so we learned something new today..
I didn't expect to read original floppy disks so I'm good there. Was it just plug and play? Or did you do something differently?
Re: USB floppy disk?
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:02 am
by Amigo1
icbrkr wrote:Amigo1 wrote:icbrkr wrote:I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this - but is it possible to mount a USB floppy drive under 4.1?
luckily I found a drive an was abler to test it. The result:
it does work on x1000 with a TEAC UFD-03 external Floppy Drive Unit.
It does not read floppies from the "Classic" Commodore Amiga 68k-hardware-Era formatted floppies however.
so we learned something new today..
I didn't expect to read original floppy disks so I'm good there. Was it just plug and play? Or did you do something differently?
Just plug&play
Re: USB floppy disk?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:05 am
by icbrkr
Amigo1 wrote:
I didn't expect to read original floppy disks so I'm good there. Was it just plug and play? Or did you do something differently?
Just plug&play[/quote]
Awesome, thanks. I'm off to find one of these to use.