19 November 2018, 17:06 | #1 |
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Gotek/internal/external drive combination
Hello all,
I've got an Amiga with a Gotek drive, the Amiga's original internal drive, and a proper external floppy. Fun as the Gotek is, it just doesn't have the fun nostalgic feeling of popping a disk in the internal drive and off you go. What I'd like to do is have the Gotek and internal drive in the case (there's room) and then have a normal external drive for those multi disk games. I'd like to be able to switch between the Gotek/internal drive as DF0 and leave the external drive as a DF1. Without opening up the case all the time too. Any suggestions how I might do this? Thanks in advance! |
19 November 2018, 17:53 | #2 |
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depends on how good you are with electronics, but the easiest solution is probably to use a toggle switch for the power of the two, so only one is powered at a time - the signals on the ribbon cable can then just be connected to both.
Otherwise you're looking at e.g. connecting SEL0 exclusively to one of them at a time. |
09 December 2018, 00:41 | #3 |
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If you have room to put a second external drive internal then you can daisy chain that off your other external. I have my Amiga in an ATX tower case with DF0 a gotek, DF1 and 2 daisy chained externals but mounted internal to the case.
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