Dual Amiga Floppy Drive

[jmmijo]

The online vendor, oldsoftware.com has what is called an external Dual-Floppy drive for the Amiga. The description says it's a dual drive in one case. Now I've never heard of this, but it doesn't surprise me that somebody had built one.

Can anybody elaberate on this further, I've no luck finding any more info on Google, at least so far, thanks ;)

[fiath]

I remember that...

It was basically exactly as you said, two (internal type, but with PC like facing) drives in a metal enclosure with one cable to the Amiga floppy port and was slightly less expensive that buying two seperate drives as you can imagine.

There were loads of ads in Amiga mags for it, unfortuately I threw all mine away (doh) a long time ago.


Not much, but I hope it helps...

[Djay]

i have a dual drive for my A1200, uses one ribbon cable to connect to Amiga, i also have a power switcher for it!
its COOL

[jmmijo]

Hey thanks everyone, the vendor wants $79 US for it and I've thought about it, but I have about a dozen extra external drives lying around for spares now as it is :D

[fiath]

$79?? I am quite sure it is not that rare...

+ the fact that it does not exactly do anything more does it... :)

[Djay]

i remember picking it up at a show for £79.99, back the day

[jmmijo]

Correct Faith, I think the only interesting feature is that it's in a single case. Well I actually hand made some of these using two external SupraDrives and some duct tape :laugh :laugh

[Tim Janssen]

Hmm, those dual discdrives were very common in The Netherlands back in those days. When I visited a monthly Amiga copyparty almost everyone had such a device.
By the way, a Dutch company called KCS (Kolff Computer Supplies) advertised every month their KCS-dual drive in Dutch amiga magazines. If anyone is interested I can put this advert online.

[DrBong]

KCS were still selling the dual floppy drive and their popular power PC x86 board up until recently. It seems they have sold all their remaining stock now if you have a look at their website:

http://www.kcsnl.com/gb/amiga/


KCS also sold the much underrated Power Cartridge for the C64 too, if anyone remembers that. They were an industrious little company when developing for C64 and Amiga. Not too sure how successful they've been since, though.

[wizard66]

Hi,
I have a drive like this but i don't have the software drivers for it.
If sombody have the software for this drive please can you upload it to the zone for me :bowdown
I be ever so greatfull Thanks.:D

[fc.studio]

A friend of mine in 1990 worked in a computer shop and
I'm sure I saw him a 3 floppy drive in one single case connected to A500.

[fc.studio]

Hi,
I have a drive like this but i don't have the software drivers for it.
If sombody have the software for this drive please can you upload it to the zone for me :bowdown
I be ever so greatfull Thanks.:D



Drivers? you don't need them.
- In WorkBench you can access to floppy/s by clicking on their icons
- In CLI-Shell you have to use df1: or df2:
- Cachet XCopy tool allows you to activate df1: df2: df3: for quicker and multy-copy

:D

[alexh]

I think the power computing dual drives had a built in X-copy Cyclone hardware copier (which you could activate with a switch on the back of the drive)

[jmmijo]

Nice info there fc.studio, I didn't realize there was some added benefit to this particular dual-drive package :)

[alexh]

If you are going to invest in dual disk drive, this is the puppy

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=773

[Effy]

Wizard66 means the software to use the KCS Dual Drive as a harddrive. Of course you can use the two drives as seperate drives but with the supplied software you can use it also as an almost 5 Mb harddrive ... :shocked
Not much in these days where real harddrives are over 300 Gb but in those days this was a lot for a dual drive that you could use on an A500 :laughing