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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: ilektre on April 29, 2006, 12:28:16 AM
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Hi
I got an old Amiga 1200 working on WorkBench 3.2. but when I insert a disk in the external disk drive (DF1) it says DF1:???? and I can't open it by clicking the icon.
I was also wondering when a disk encounters a 'checksum error' whether it is broken or recoverable. Since I got this ami-pc link disk I never used before and it encounters read errors.
These are probably simple matters but I was never familiar with Amiga. So anyone can help me out?
Cheers
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Now you got 3 simple matters:
There is no WorkBench 3.2. It's probably WB 3.1.
About your disk: It's probably corrupt or there's
a lot of dust inside the disk-drive. In that case
you have to clean it. Or maybe wrong jumper settings.
Hope that helps.
:-)
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Oh, WorkBench 3.1. of course.
No matter what disk I insert in the external disk drive (DF1) gives me DF1:???? so it must be the external disk drive. Not a corrupted disk. I hope it's just dust or the jumper settings.
Thanks
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Hi, First, clean the disk drives read/write heads with a cleaning disk, do it 4 or 5 times. After letting solution evaporate for a few minutes, take a new disk and try to format it, if it works, then copy files to the disk, try reading them, deleting, renaming, etc...
As for jumpers, first, this is an External drive, right, like an A1010? If so, I can't see how jumpers (actually jumper), could have been changed. There should be only one jumper on the back of some Internal Amiga floppy drives, to select between DF0: and DF1: Assuming I remember correctly.
I suppose if nothing works, you could take the drive out of the external enclosure and check the jumper, but I have no idea why someone would have changed it.....
And then again, your drive might be dead....I have had 2 A1010's, only one works....
Hope this helps...
Edit: Just remembered: my dead 1010 drive gave me that DF1:???? bit, too....Hope it's just a cooincidence....