STBook Floppy Drive

[Robson]

I thought I share my latest here too. the NSTF-144 external Floppy Drive for STBook.

 

The never released STBook floppy drive is now done.

Works 100% as Atari imagined and maybe more...a port for external HDDs (so you won't lose the port when the FDD is connected)

 

PCB, case, cables, manual, box all done.

 

More info:

https://sites.google.com/view/tercsirobi/home/atari-mania/projects/nstf-144

 

 

 

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by Robson

[anzac]

amazing work!

 

just out of curiosity, would this work with other STs?

[Robson]

This is so specific to the STBook it won't work with any other ST series. 

 

STs have the floppy controller inside and on the floppy ports you see the disk drive control signals (like motor on, read, write, etc).  The STBook has no fdd controller chip so it's housed in the drive, therefore those signals on the port are for the chip (and other half is for external hdd - since it's a dual purpose port)

Edited April 12, 2022 by Robson

[anzac]

On 4/12/2022 at 5:51 PM, Robson said:

This is so specific to the STBook it won't work with any other ST series. 

 

STs have the floppy controller inside and on the floppy ports you see the disk drive control signals (like motor on, read, write, etc).  The STBook has no fdd controller chip so it's housed in the drive, therefore those signals on the port are for the chip (and other half is for external hdd - since it's a dual purpose port)

thanks! i was wondering if it would work using the ACSI port on STs. seemed like a good way to have a working floppy on other models

[Mr.JT]

Will you be selling these, or was it more a passion project for yourself?