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Old 05 July 2010, 20:07   #51
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Again: the drives themselves have no modification at all: ordinary PC drives. All "magic" is done by the power XL circuit.
This evening, I have stripped both my Power Computing XL Drive internal drive mechanisms and I can confirm that both contain no modifications at all.

As promised, here are scans of the HDDRIVE Issue F and G interfaces, respectively:





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My friend, beside the "magic" HD tricks all the Power XL drive do is commonly available at Aminet: they simply swap the 2 & 34 pins and provide the "true" ready signal.
So, it seems that the Power Computing XL Drive interface can also be used to connect a PC floppy drive mechanism, irrespective of density, to an Amiga as an external floppy drive, and that has given me an idea...
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