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Amiga 5.25-inch floppy disks and drives
I got a external drive with my A500, I later purchased a 5.25" drive as the disks were 1/10th the price of the normal ones. Cut some traces on my MB and soldered in a toggle switch to boot of any of the 3 drives.
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What was the capacity of 5.25" Disks on Amiga?
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It was identical to the 3.5" disks - 880kB!
An image of one type of disk can be written to a disk of the other type with no problem, so mips was definitely on to a winner with his 5.25" drive if the 5.25" disks really were 1/10 of the price of the 3.5" disks! Last edited by prowler; 01 May 2013 at 22:16. Reason: Fixed quote. |
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From what I recall they used a 1.2MB PC drive and amigaos would format the disks to 880k Last edited by prowler; 01 May 2013 at 22:17. Reason: Fixed quote. |
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Every month when my parents went shopping I would get 50-100 new 5.25" disks. When some of my friends heard about this they also got 5.25" drives. If you google Amiga 5.25" drives you will find other people that also had them. |
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Edit: I'm guessing the exact seek time might not be important since the tracks are not interleaved so there's plenty of waiting time to find the sync. |
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Maybe move a few posts to a new '5.25" Amiga drives' thread?
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But one thing is trackloaders from cracked games, another is original disks. Is it possible to write IPF files of originals to 5.25" disks and keep the copy protection intact? Edit: I actually never owned a 5.25" drive. Even on the C64 I relied solely on the datasette. And today those drives are priced as if they were made of gold, at least on ebay. Guess they are becoming rare. |
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Amiga 5.25-inch floppy disks and drives
The 5.25" drives came with the Transformer PC Emulation software so their first function was to read PC floppies (360K), but could be formatted by MS/PCDOS to 720K. I recall an article about them being replaced with HD PC drives that would format PC standard 1.2 MB or Amiga 1.76 MB disks. Later there was a way to read C64 disks with an emulator, but I can't remember which one did it. It was easier to use a 1541 drive and a small interface to do this.
The BridgeBoards had issues with the drives I think, but by the time I had a BridgeBoard, I only had internal drives on my A2000. |
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Amiga 5.25-inch floppy disks and drives
Yeah, that was it.
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