Solid state drive as Drive B: - possible?

[6BQ5]

I have seen pictures of Atari ST machines where the internal floppy drive has been replaced with a Gotek unit capable of reading/writing from/to solid state devices like SD cards and USB memory sticks. Can this Gotek be retrofitted to work as an external drive mapped to Drive B:? Maybe an old single sided SF354 drive can be modified to have a Gotek inside of it?

[oracle_jedi]

Yes. You can mount the Gotek in a floppy drive enclosure and plug it into the floppy disk connector on the back of the ST.

 

The HxC2001 can be used in the same way,

 

You can also do a mod to switch which drive is A, and which is B, allowing you to boot off the external disk.

[6BQ5]

Does the solid state device, my Drive B, show up as a single drive letter with a capacity of [xx] GB?

[oracle_jedi]

No. Whichever disk image you have currently selected shows up as drive B:, with the capacity as either 360K or 720K. If you have no disk image selected then drive B: will show up as an empty disk drive.

[6BQ5]

Can I changes disks without having to reboot either the computer or the Hxc / Gotek?

 

Sorry ... I know that's a very mundane question but I don't have any experience with these devices. I'm still using floppies to transfer downloaded programs from my Windows 10 machine.