You CAN do this with Amiga floppy drive, but SHOULD you?

Original Video: • Read and Write Amiga f...
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Greaseweazle Host Tools
github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle...
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Greaseweazle GUI
desertsagesolutions.com/greas...
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GreaseWeazle basic "get you going" commands.
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READ an Amiga disk using Amiga drive
gw.exe read --drive 0 nameOfDisk.scp. (nameOfDisk is whatver you wish to call it.) This will write it as an SCP file in the local folder where you ran it from. This is true whether using CMD or GUI.
For IBMPC drive: gw.exe read --drive=b nameofDisk.adf
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WRITE a disk from an ADF or SCP using an Amiga drive
gw.exe write --drive 0 nameOfDisk.adf where disk.adf is the filename of the ADF file. (You might have to make sure the ADF file is local or provide the full path). If you wish to write a disk from an SCP, specify the extension. nameOfDisk.scp
For IBMPC drive: gw.exe write --drive=b nameofDisk.adf
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Greaseweazle v4
amigakit.amiga.store/greasewe...
Note this version lacks the JUMPER that allows real Amiga floppy drives to work with WinUAE. You need an updated board design and have it built or build yourself. A hassle, but at least it's possible. This updated board is located here: github.com/solarmon/Greaseweazle
It's much easier to simply use an old IBMPC floppy and cable instead. Then it works in WinUAE.
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Want to use Greaseweazle in WinUAE?
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WinUAE 4.9.1 required.
www.winuae.net/download/
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Floppy Bridge software for WinUAE required.
Again, you cannot use real Amiga floppy drives with AmigaKit version of Greaseweazle. Best to just buy a old IBMPC floppy drive and cable.
amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/winuae#
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[@darrensmith4606]

Just wanted to say that thanks to your original video, I purchased a grease weasel and managed to ascertain that all my floppy disks were mouldy! I was then able to buy some brand new sealed floppy disks and right to them with my PC drive and finally resurrect my Amiga 500 plus. Thank you so much and love your videos and your special style. Keep going!

[@HoldandModify]

Sorry you have had such trials. Thanks for watching!

[@benwu7980]

Nice ! I am kind of wondering how much of the issues are with the hardware's age, and just degradation of the floppies, but have no way to empirically test. I did a old pc build recently from around 2003 to 2007, for testing old kit, like floppy drives, ide hard / disc drives, with media from that era and before. Things were often very... unstable for figuring out what actually still worked from the media side. Like could fully read a XP sata raid floppy, but when went to try to write the log file as a txt file to it, it just kept errorring out, then wouldn't read again properly. And that happened in reverse too. This was across 6 pc floppy drives and about 15% of 200 pc formatted floppies, but every drive had plenty of disks that did work fine across each piece of hardware.

[@cullmaster7361]

Nicely put together “Q” (A.K.A Mr Kevin 😉 ), great explanation 👍🏻 Cheers! 🙏🏻

[@HoldandModify]

I really hope it shows what you’ve getting in to. This crap is a HASSLE.

[@ChrisEdwardsRestoration]

My amiga drive works but my pc drive doesnt , cmd or gui, i got it to work one time for my own video,then nothing since, i used the older tools and gui and it worked ONE time. Since. Nothing.

[@HoldandModify]

I’m thinking it’s….a mess.

[@kevinhanley6462]

Thanks for explaining this!

[@HoldandModify]

I hope it makes some kind of sense.

[@kevinhanley6462]

@@HoldandModify It does. I think it's restricted to working with AmigaDOS non copy protected disks. Maybe using an Amiga floppy disk drive would let you access more disks, but a PC disk drive would let you access your own floppies.

[@ms-ex8em]

in this video there’s a cover case for the floppy drive can this be purchased from ebay?? thanks

[@HoldandModify]

It’s a 3D print. They show up now and then but it’s pretty rare. The file is on ThingVerse and free. Just have to use a service to print it. Like..PCB WAAAAAAY! :) (no, they do not sponsor me, no one does)

[@Leon05X]

Hi, i'm new using greazeweasel, and I have a problem trying to write adf files to my floppys my greaseweazel F1 has a PC Drive inside. And I get this error greaseweazle command failed seek track 0 not found I've already tried to change drive select, step and try many configs, But I always get the same error. I hope maybe you can help me?

[@HoldandModify]

Are you using CMD line commands or the software GUI?

[@Leon05X]

@@HoldandModify gui i tried greaaeweazelgui and fluxmyfluffyfloppy

[@HoldandModify]

@@Leon05X I’ve not had any success with those. I use the command line option. It’s not hard and always works. The commands are in the description for this video.

[@Leon05X]

@@HoldandModify Thank you, but I figured my problem was that my greaseweazel has a plastic shell, and the top cover was bending the cables down, then making the connection unstable, I take off the top cover, re-connect the cables and tried to write without the top cover, and worked very well erase/read/write all succes.