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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: leongt on June 10, 2003, 05:32:16 AM

Title: Exturnal floppy
Post by: leongt on June 10, 2003, 05:32:16 AM

just brought a rockwell 3.5 exturnal floppy drive for my A1200 and after pluging it in the drive light comes on but the amiga will not detect it, and the inturnal drive won't work with it pluged in. :-?

Title: Re: Exturnal floppy
Post by: iamaboringperson on June 10, 2003, 05:41:57 AM

sounds like a big problem to me.


rockwell... rockwell....  is that drive specifically for the amiga?  i suppose if it has a 23 pin connector it should be


what do you get on the early startup screen?

Title: Re: Exturnal floppy
Post by: jdiffend on June 10, 2003, 06:38:51 AM

Uh, is it a parallel port drive?  Those don't work on the miggy.

Title: Re: Exturnal floppy
Post by: leongt on June 10, 2003, 07:16:01 AM

I brought the drive off  ebay and it was advertised as an amiga drive, and it plugs into the amiga floppy port but I don't get enything on startup, I've even tryed it on my son's A500 and the same thing happens.

Title: Re: Exturnal floppy
Post by: jdiffend on June 10, 2003, 08:02:30 AM

Sure it's not a Rockport instead of a Rockwell?
Sounds like you got the shaft.  Contact the seller and if they won't resolve the issue make a complaint on eBay so other people know what to expect.

Title: Re: Exturnal floppy
Post by: leongt on June 10, 2003, 10:19:03 AM

took the case apart and found a mitsumi floppy inside, and changed the cabel around, now it works BUT, every time I turn on the amiga I'm getting four disk icon's that come up on the screen saying DF2, PC2, DF3, and PC3, becouse I have crossdos 7 installed on my HDD, would it do this becouse a PC 720K floppy is inside of the floppy case!