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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Dmaster on May 09, 2008, 05:53:34 AM
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Hello all, I have a silly question. In order to be able to use a Floppy drive (I think it's 1.76 mb) or something like that. Is ther a jumper that need to be set on the motherboard? I have a reveision 6 Amiga 2000 motherboard. Thanks.
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Dmaster wrote:
Hello all, I have a silly question. In order to be able to use a Floppy drive (I think it's 1.76 mb) or something like that. Is ther a jumper that need to be set on the motherboard? I have a reveision 6 Amiga 2000 motherboard. Thanks.
If I got you right you need an HD floppy disk drive.
Your current one seems to be a "DD" type, that can only format & read up to 880 kB...
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Dandy wrote:
If I got you right you need an HD floppy disk drive.
Your current one seems to be a "DD" type, that can only format & read up to 880 kB...
Yes. :) Thanks for getting my terms correct. I have a DD drive and would like to install it as a second internal drive in my A2000. Are there jumpers to be set or special cables to be used?
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J301 should be closed, aside from that it should work fine.
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That's assuming you're trying to fit an Amiga double density (880KB) drive and not a PC or an Amiga HD (1.76MB) one. If you want to fit an Amiga HD drive you'll need KS 2.04 or higher I think, but I could be wrong. KS 3.0 should be ok anyway.
If you're trying to fit a PC drive, you'll need a Catweasel card to use it properly. Otherwise it might work as a DD drive (880KB) with some jiggery-pokery but you will never get more than 880KB at best.
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Thanks, I will give it a try tonight.