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Old 10-07-2003, 12:04 PM   #1
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Default Can I turn an Amiga 3070 Tape drive into external CDROM?
Has anyone ever took a Amiga 3070, and removed
the tape drive and replaced it with say CDROM or
harddrive. I have one, but I think it would be more usefull for me to replace the tape drive and use it for my A500, or maybe my Atari St? Since I`m not using
Unix on my A2000. Unless someone can tell a program that would work with a 2.0 rom and workbench 2.1? maybe 3rd party or so?
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Old 10-07-2003, 12:46 PM   #2
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Default Re: Can I turn an Amiga 3070 Tape drive into external CDROM?
Yes it should work. But why destroy a piece of original amiga hardware?
Anything with a commodore badge sells incredibly well on ebay these days.
So sell it, buy a standard external SCSI bay and you have money to spare
to take your mates out for a stiff drink!
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Hmmm a beer does sound good. Yeah ok I`ll post it.
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Old 10-07-2003, 02:32 PM   #4
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Have you tried TapewormFS? It allows you to use the tape drive like a VERY slow hard drive. I think it works with AOS2.
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Do you have a lot of experience with Tapeworm? I have discovered a need to use Tapeworm to get at my old tape backups. Will it work with OS 3.9? Or should I set up an OS2 system to use it?
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Do you have a lot of experience with Tapeworm?

... must ... resist ... cheap ... joke ...
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Old 05-20-2004, 10:08 AM   #7
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Fortunately I had the presence of mind to use a capital "T" and the singular form. :-D
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Have you tried TapewormFS? It allows you to use the tape drive like a VERY slow hard drive. I think it works with AOS2.
A very slow "sequential" hard drive. I used it for a while on OS3.1 so I'm pretty sure it would work with 3.9 also. But, I wouldn't recommend it as a substitute for a real HD.
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