Look at that, I made a thing and it works! Re-reading the #Greaseweazle FAQ section without being as tired as other times actually made me notice that my drive likely needed the 12V power rail, which the F1 adapter does not provide. Picked a random centre positive 12V power supply, vampirized a Molex-Berg cable by popping out the needed pins from the Molex connector and plugging them (somewhat haphazardly), and it's working wonderfully.
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Writing with the #Greaseweazle works, and the #MSX can read back the floppies. There's the Outer Sounds music disk blasting out some tunes :neocat_cool:
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@aperezdc Congratulations and will done! What format floppies are you rescuing?
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@feoh thanks! I'm not going to archive anything, other than making backups of some MSX and Amiga disks I have around. It's nothing that wouldn't be already archived. My main motivation for building this was learning on one hand, and on the other hand making a known-good AmigaDOS disk to use with DiagROM to check my suspicion that the floppy drive in my A1200 may need a replacement. Also, it's just convenient to be able to handle disks in Amiga formats directly from a computer running Linux. In particular double density disks are troublesome for many regular USB floppy drives.
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