ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2017 Entry 1st August 2017: Post: 1 Unbranded 5.25" drive An unbranded 5.25" external drive connected simply to the rear disk drive port on the Amiga 1200 and Checkmate [ The Checkmate is basically an Amiga 500 inside a purpose made metal casing ] Drives can read the 5.25" disks in PC or Amiga format. On the Checkmate the PowerPC board has to be mounted to use the emulator Neither drive has any marking advising of the maker. I dug out my Amiga 1020 external 5.25" floppy drive simply to compare the physical size of the unbranded unit. Pictures 01-02 Front and back sitting on a 1060 Sidecar Pictures 03-04 Drive connects to Amiga Disk Port - Amiga 1020 compared Pictures 05-06 1020 for reference = DF1 CrossDOS Mount File Pictures 07-08 My VEIGA Tools disk showing as a PC disk on DF1 Pictures 09-10 The VEIGA DF1 PC Formatted Disk Pictures 11-12 Another unbranded drive working with the Checkmate Pictures 13-14 The LED read 51 - Checkmate with Park and KCS not mounted Pictures 15-16 Formatting the Amiga DF1 on the A1200 Pictures 17-18 Copying Aminet files from Q-Drive CD to Amiga 5.25" disk Pictures 19-20 Disk taken to Checkmate to view files on the unbranded 5.25" on that machine This last pic shows the 5.25" drive light on the Amiga 1200 based machine

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Last updated 01/08/2017

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