(11-02-2014, 07:47 PM)grider Wrote: Okay, off hand do you know the revision number of the 321b and 321j Samsung drives that you tested?
I've just bought a T3 revision 321B myself. Can't test it yet though, as I've only just ordered my Supercard Pro.
This post was useful to me, over on the KryoFlux forums, when I was searching for information on drives:
hawui1 Wrote:Models /LEB starting from revision T6 have lost the density switch, so the last revision of the /LEB type that works well with Amiga 880K disks is T5.
I successfully tried also a T1and a T4 so i would say that the models of SFD-321B that are good to dump Amiga disks are:
Anyone try any Sony MPF920 plain drives (without an appending letter or -#)? Just curious, since i may be able to get a few shipped to me dirt cheap.
Also I have a question about getting floppy disks. I'm going to be writing images to disk for use on a real Amiga (500, 1000, and 1200). When looking to get new disks I've seen a couple online places that sell DD/DS disks at about a buck a piece. Two places I've found simply through a search are listed below.
As I've read using DS/HD is not recommended by various people on different forums on Amiga's. Even though they may work sorta? So going with the DS/DD is the correct choice?
12-20-2014, 08:06 AM (This post was last modified: 12-20-2014, 08:07 AM by LordCrass.)
I use a Sony MPF920-L and it works well. I too got a deal on a dozen of these drives a while back. If I recall it supports up to 82 tracks.
The one catch with it is that if you're writing low density formats (eg. Amiga, Atari ST) to HD disks, you need to put a piece of tape over the HD hole of the disk while writing, otherwise it uses the wrong settings and your copy will be unreliable.
The only other catch I've found with HD disks is that if you need to write to these disks on the Amiga side, you might have problems. Not all DD drives can write HD disks. My internal A500 drive can, but my external one can't. Likely because my internal drive is a replacement from AmigaKit, so it's a modified HD drive to begin with.
11-24-2016, 02:22 PM (This post was last modified: 11-24-2016, 02:23 PM by mark_k.)
(11-01-2013, 05:41 PM)admin Wrote: Samsung SFD-321B - this is an extremely good drive for reading/writing! *1
*1 - The Rev T6 and later drives are high density ONLY. So, they will not work for reading/writing DD disks!
How large was your sample size to conclude the rev. T6 SFD-321B doesn't work with DD disks?
Because I received one the other day and — as far as I can tell — it works fine both reading and writing DD disks. Supercard software media test is successful with a DD disk and dumps made from Amiga disks seem fine.