exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Hi All,

with the imminent arrival of a gotek i'd like to take my fully working internal floppy and connect it to the external floppy for a physical drive b:

ive had a look but cant see anyone doing this or a cable, so apologies if its already been posted.

Am assuming it should be as easy as some kind of convertor cable and if needed a case to tidy it up but thats secondary

so has anyone done this or any advice on it

cheers

There are adapters for the ST floppy port to floppy ribbon cable found on Ebay. You'll also need to wire up a power source. I typically just use an old USB A cord so I can use a wall wart to power it....so long as your floppy only needs 5v to run...which I believe new floppy drives should be fine with that. The older ones need the 12v too...that would be a bit more effort to power it.

I did this a while back: ST external floppy cable

I use mine with a CosmosEx to connect as a 2nd external floppy, but should work for any floppy.

brilliant thanks for the help guys