How to initialize/test Amiga 1020 drive?

[Dragster]

Hi!!!

I just got an Amiga 1020 5" 1/4 drive, I've been trying to test it or see it in the amiga os but no luck. Is there a way to test it? I do not see it in the early startup as df1: (connected it to my amiga 4000), the diskchange command says there's no such device, etc... any ideas or somebody experienced with these drives who can give me a hand?

Thanks!

D.

[Dragster]

Bringing this old topic back to life..

does anyone have a mount list to mount this drive? Come on, somebody outhere must have experience with 1020 drives :-)

I'm having a hard time trying to make AmigaOS recognize this drive and to format a disk..

Cheers!

D.

[Dragster]

@Bigdan

Hi m8! Thanks for the information. It worked! At least know I know the drive is not faulty, I was starting to believe that, fortunately everything's ok.

Now if I could only read/write Commodore64 disks with it.. but I'm told it's impossible. Can you confirm that?

Another thing I noticed.. I could only format a double density disk.. I tried with a high density disk and the drive can't format it.. even my C64's 1571 can't format them.. wonder why.. that procedure works with HD 3.5" floppies  on the amiga...

thanks for the information,

cheers!

D.

[Dragster]

@Patrik

hehe.. thanks for the clarification.. :-) I'm kinda "new" to the A4k.. I've been always an A500/A1200 guy.. hehe

cheers,

D.

[Dragster]

Thanks for the information, @Tj and @Bigdan

I tried 1541 from aminet last night just to find that I have to change the speed of my A1020 drive in order to make working .d64 images out of real C64 floppies.. it doesn't seem too risky, but I don't wanna touch the drive. I guess I'll better connect my 1571 to the Amiga to make the .d64 images...

Cheers!

D.