Has anyone got one of these, or know what it looks like?

I was about to stick this one on ebay, then I noticed the power computing logo on the drive!

It got me thinking if this was a power XL drive.




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I've got a PC XL drive, but it doesn't look like the one you have there. My XL drive has a completely metal case and and is plain without the Power Computing Logo on the case.

I do also have a standard external Amiga Power Computing drive with the X Copy compatible hardware built in and it looks identical to that one you have.

But I just saw on amiga.org that you tested it and it did read HD floppies, so it might be an earlier one. If you need the drivers disk for the drive let me know and I will do you an ADF of the disk.
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I've got a XL drive like the one in the photo. I'm sure i've still got the advert for it somewhere.
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How much did you pay for your one originally? I'm sure mine cost over £100 back in the day. I have the original box in the loft so may even still have the receipt with it.

BTW, Stu, that drive looks like it's been to the gulf war or something. What happened to it?
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Not sure, got it in a job lot of amiga stuff! Ive had it for over a year now and didnt even know it was one, was about to stick it on ebay and then noticed the logo!

Taken the case off to paint it, and the controller board says HDAmiga on the chip!
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Not sure. It was a gift, and I didn't really have all that much of an idea about the concept of money at the time. I just saw it as the solution to me and my dad's problem of having to swap disks millions of times in order to start a race on Geoff Crammond's F1GP.

If I can find the advert, that might give a clue.

EDIT:And here we go:


Going slightly off-topic, how far away is the hardware section on the main site? It would be really useful to be able to start to catalogue these things for future reference.
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Well there we go. I thought it was around the £100 mark. Mad now to think I once paid that much for a floppy disk drive!

As for the Hardware section, I am still working on it, but hopefully it will be up and running in the next couple of months. I have some work to do on the main site code first and then some more on the hardware section templates, but that should only take a couple of days work at most. I will post more details closer to the time.
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Here are a couple of shots of my Power Computing XL drive, so you can all see the difference.


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Hello

I got a mysterious floppy drive from Ebay.

It was called "Blitzcopy floppy HD floppy" in the Ebay offer..


So I got the hardware and the drive is working as normal (DD) but I´m not able to use the hidden special features of this drive because I do not have the software "Blitzcopy".

Does anybody here knows something about this mystious Soft and Hardware ?

I´m really interested to try out the missing Blitzcopy software.

If someone could help me I would be very grateful.

Here are some picutures of the hardware.
The drive has an ON/OFF/Auto switch.

I got two driver disks from an other person for the Power Computing XL drive.
I tried the driver 1.32 and 1.3 but I was unable to read or write any HD disk.

So what do I have here ? Is it just a DD drive ?
Is the Auto switch really for Cyclone/X-copy ?
I thought there must be a software called Blitzcopy but I could not find it.







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Just noticed on the underside of the PCB it says Powerdrive which to me sounds as though it's just an extra floppy and cannot read/write HD floppies. Can't find any info on it so i may be wrong.
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