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Unable to format any floppies...
« on: May 05, 2019, 02:44:49 AM »
I have a trio of 1200’s... a 3000 two 1000’s, and a defunct 2000... I am restoring them all, but wanted to play with the new 3.1.4 os, but I am unable to create floppies...

I built a dedicated win7 machine with a floppy drive and successfully formatted the disks, so I know they aren’t bad, but I get bad sector errors, on the amigas...

I suppose the drives are dirty, I will hit them with IPA, and some microfiber, or cotton swabs, and see if it improves, but ALL my amigas have the same issue?
 

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Re: Unable to format any floppies...
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2019, 04:08:48 AM »
Nope, all DD disks,
No issue formatting them to 720k in windows... the amigas simply fail with bad sectors...
now... I don’t have any workbench disks, the drives epseem to load game disks ok, not always though.
I can load the Amiga vision disks, but cannot format any disks...
my battle chess disk loads, but won’t run past some German name screen on the chess board...
the 3000 will boot from the he, but, again, will not format the disks...

I only have the one drive for the 1200’s, but no bootable media. The HD in it isn’t complete we, so the format command will not come up.
After some reading, I am thinking my 3000 needs a specific cable to work... I do have an old 1000 external drive I could try...
 

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Re: Unable to format any floppies...
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2019, 03:35:43 AM »
My plan was to setup wb314 on an SD card with Wingate... but I’m too stupid for that apparently... block0 unable to save the hdo/hd1 info to the card...

 

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Re: Unable to format any floppies...
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2019, 03:41:36 AM »
I finally got my SD to ide in, and setup a SD card boot of workbench 3.1, then successfully connected Amiga explorer and SLOOOOOOOWLY transferred the adf files to blank floppies on my 1200... success... 2 hours of my day wasted, but success!

Now I need to understand why winuae won’t let me mount a pc folder and transfer data to the SD...
 

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Re: Unable to format any floppies...
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 12:12:18 AM »
Ok, I have my 1200 internal and external disks formatting nicely.
The 3000 is a different matter.
Neither the internal drive, nor the external drive that works fine on my 1200 will format disks. I’m thinking the Gary circuit is damaged... any ideas where to look on it?