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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: keropi on July 17, 2006, 08:51:37 PM

Title: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: keropi on July 17, 2006, 08:51:37 PM

I just got a winner tower of ebay, and tried it, it boots fine and works great of the HD... but it does not recognise any floppies inserted...
I thought the drive was damaged and exchanged it with a working one, still the same... changed the floppy cable, still the same...
u cannot read a floppy disk or format it... it gives a "cannot find cyclinder 0" error (or something similar... )
is one of the cia's dead?  :-?

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: Chain on July 17, 2006, 09:13:06 PM

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keropi wrote:

is one of the cia's dead?  :-?

looks this way  :-(

you can try if there is at least some signals with TrackStepper

http://chain.3dgrafika.cz/amiga/ts.lha
 

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: keropi on July 17, 2006, 09:16:24 PM

BETTER grab another mobo, don't have electronic equipment/knowledge except a soldering iron, lol

are the ESCOM / commodore floppy drives different?

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: Chain on July 17, 2006, 09:28:02 PM

also u can try this
http://aminet.net/package.php?package=hard/misc/DriveTest.lha

- This programs allows you to directly control signals to floppy drives
- Shows which signals drives give to your Amiga
- GUI interface
- Very useful for repairing external/internal drives etc.

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: Chain on July 17, 2006, 09:29:54 PM

and Yes, escom use mobo hack for using std PC drives
(or it was other way?)

lucky i have only commodore machines

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: keropi on July 17, 2006, 10:10:56 PM

thanx Chain, gonna test tomorrow!

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: Boot_WB on July 17, 2006, 10:39:11 PM

Are you sure the motherboard is being supplied with -12V - if it is just being fed through the floppy port, or through a molex hack then this could affect the floppy controller and sound iirc.

Rich

Title: Re: problem with floppy drive controller on 1200....
Post by: keropi on July 18, 2006, 06:03:02 AM

yeah, this amiga is inside an ELBOX winner tower...