What drives do you have connected to your Amiga?

If you still have a working Amiga you use from time to time, what drives do you have connected to it?

I setup by A4000 the other day mainly just for a play around and to check it all still worked ok, and had forgotten the mass of cabled required to get everything hooked up again as most of the stuff I had connected to it was external as I also use it with the A1200 sometimes.

On the A4000 I have:

External SCSI CD-Rom drive
External SCSI Zip Drive
2 internal IDE HDs
1 internal HD floppy drive.
1 external HD floppy drive.
1 external power computing double floppy drive (to disk drives in one unit)

I also keep intending to connect up one of the spare IDE CD-RWs I have lying about.

1 internal HD
1 internal floppy drive
1 external floppy drive

I think that was it

I only have the internal fd, have 3 external fds, but not connected. I only have a plugged Action Replay MkII.

I only have an external FD that I use with my A500 when I have it set up

Internal DVD rewriter
Internal CD rewriter
2 internal ide hds. One 40 gig the other 80 gig.
Internal floppy
External floppy (Hardly used or connected but is sometimes)
Internal Flash reader. (7 different types I think)
1 gig removable flash pen.
128 meg flash card

@TiredOfLife
You are using your amiga as main computer, aren't you?

1x external DD drive
1x internal DD drive
50MB SCSI HD (On the A500+)
1.5GB IDE HD (on the A1200)

Just need to add some CDROM drives now.

I have several spare CD drives lying around and now have a buffered IDE interface but I still need a new ATX power supply.

I build my A1200 in a tower and I have:

1x internal floppy
2x internal Harddisks (the original 80 Mb and a 2 GB)
1x internal CD-player

@Edwinner

Did you use a proper A1200 tower conversion case to convert your A1200 into a tower system, or did you customise a tower for the purpose?

I've been wanting to have a go at converting an A1200 into a tower for some time but not got around to trying yet.

@DemonCleaner

Yes, mate.
There is a peecee in the house but it belongs to the missus.

I used the E/Box conversion kit to build the A1200 in a tower. I guess that was the easiest way to go. I liked the separation of keyboard and computer, but after using a PC keyboard for several years now I want to go back to my A1200 keyboard again. (For some reason it just feels better). The plan is to install a microcontroller that converts the 31 pins of the A1200 keyboard to serial data and decode back with a second microcontroller it in the tower. This will probably be my next project.

I never had an external drive when the A500 was in it's prime. Yes, shocking I know, but I persevered with it.

I finally bought one from eBay about two or three years ago when I got the A500 back down from the loft to see if it still worked (it did, but not perfectly).

I have an external 3.5" diskdrive connected to the A1200, along with a 2x Power Computing CD-ROM (from 1995). Works fine for those Aminet CD's and CD32 games.

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Originally Posted by Edwinner

I used the E/Box conversion kit to build the A1200 in a tower. I guess that was the easiest way to go. I liked the separation of keyboard and computer, but after using a PC keyboard for several years now I want to go back to my A1200 keyboard again. (For some reason it just feels better). The plan is to install a microcontroller that converts the 31 pins of the A1200 keyboard to serial data and decode back with a second microcontroller it in the tower. This will probably be my next project.

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There are two other alternatives you could use. The easiest would be if you could find an A4000 keyboard and connect that up. The other is to connect the A1200 keyboard up in it's own custom case and use a Keyrah device which converts the A1200 keyboard into a PC keyboard. You could then just plug it in instead of the PC keyboard you are currently using.

I liked this Keyrah device (never heard of it), but it converts the A1200 keyboard into an USB device. This means that I can still not use it for my A1200 tower. I think I need a device that converts the A1200 keyboard into a PC compatible serial commands. Then I can either connect the A1200 or PC keyboard to my tower.

I use the Keyrah in a C64 case, so you can use your C64 keyboard as USB keyboard for your PC, nice for emulation. But the response of the keys is very slow.

That is a shame to hear the C64 Keyrah has a slow response time. Maybe there is a way to speed up the timing or something? :unsure:

In my A1200 Tower a 3.5 " 6.4gb, my A1200 desktop a 2.5" 2.1gb and in my ickle A600 a 2.5" 2.1gb