AT A1200 floppy troubles

[Cyberus]

I've got an Amiga Technologies A1200 that was sold to me as non working.
Well I stuck a WB disk in there and tried to boot it up and it wouldn't boot, so I tried another disk, wouldn't boot.

So I prised apart a shabby external DD drive I have and took out the Sony drive in there with a view to replacing it in the A1200.
Now, the drive I took out is a standard HD drive modified to read Amiga DD disks AFAIK. And this 'hack' is part of the unit. So in theory I should be able to put this new drive in. ...

But when I do, still nothing.

Any ideas?

lol @ floppy troubles  :-o

[Cyberus]

Ah. no I didn't, thanks for that.

I changed the jumper from 1 to 0 made sure all the connectors were snug. But still, nothing.....



 :-?

[Cyberus]

Tried jumper setting at 1 too

The drive gets power ok, the LED comes on both on the drive and on the cluster, but that's it, it just seizes

[Cyberus]

Of course! I just assumed it was a pin adaptor, but you're right. I just guessed the Sony drive in there was the same as the amiga ones that were used.
In which case, how come I have read on the internet that this swap (external amiga drivev -> internal) is possible?

How in the hell am I going to get a replacement?  :-(

[Cyberus]

the thing is those drives are always so expensive when I could probably get a whole amiga 1200 for that second hand...

anyway, thanks for your help