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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: rkauer on September 29, 2008, 05:24:05 PM

Title: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: rkauer on September 29, 2008, 05:24:05 PM

 Does anyone used an Epson SMD340 drive on the Amiga? It appears to be a HD Amiga floppy.

 If not, I will transform it in a regular 880kb drive, what could be a shame on those nice 1.76Mb drives.

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: rkauer on October 05, 2008, 04:12:26 AM

 A helpful guy from EAB point me the right direction.

 Thanks for no-one here. Period.

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: weirdami on October 05, 2008, 06:00:53 AM

Quote

Thanks for no-one here. Period.

Mean.

This is the first time I've even seen this thread.

I have an Epson SMD-1300 for sale if that helps. See my signature links.

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: rkauer on October 05, 2008, 07:57:18 AM

 Thanks, Weird.

 The drives are different. Tomorrow I'll convert the unit to Amiga standard and test it.

 Sorry for the hard words, people.

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: sbeehre on October 21, 2008, 12:12:24 AM

did you ever get an answer on this? we have heaps here at work and would love to use it on my Amigas

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: rkauer on October 21, 2008, 01:14:27 AM

 Only as an ordinary DD drive. The motor wheel is not heavy enough to rotate in 150 RPM "smoothly".:-(

 Sigh... Back to the never-ending search for a FZ357...

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: sbeehre on October 21, 2008, 03:01:12 AM

what did you have to do to get it to work?

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: Kin-Hell on October 21, 2008, 03:16:17 AM

Quote

rkauer wrote:
 Sigh... Back to the never-ending search for a FZ357...

....Is that FZ-357A?

PM me with a sensible offer if you want one!

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: lui75 on March 20, 2013, 01:32:52 AM

@rkauer: I know it's an old thread,
But could you tell me how did you manage to let an Epson smd-340 work
as internal drive on Amiga 1200?
Thank you!

L

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: amiman99 on March 20, 2013, 03:43:04 AM

The SMD-340 drives work great on Amiga. I have one installed in A1200 MagicBox. Here is a blurry screenshot of jumpers taken from my video. You can try to match the jupers with my drawing. I don't have time to take the apart the system, but for sure one jumper is set to DF0, the others I'm not sure. I stuck a jumper table paper on top of the drive so I will not forget how I got it to work.
BUT there is one major thing you need to do is to jumper the PIN2 to 34 on the floppy cable, with out it it will not recognize the disk change.
Maybe in the near future I will disassemble the system and get a more details.

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: desiv on March 20, 2013, 04:47:03 AM

Quote from: lui75;729786

But could you tell me how did you manage to let an Epson smd-340 work as internal drive on Amiga 1200?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5Iby5KqWQ

This might help...

desiv

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: djos on March 20, 2013, 05:58:47 AM

Quote from: rkauer;423627

Only as an ordinary DD drive. The motor wheel is not heavy enough to rotate in 150 RPM "smoothly".:-(

 Sigh... Back to the never-ending search for a FZ357...

hehe, I found one of these the other day in a scout sale for $1

:D

Title: Re: Epson SMD-340 HD floppy
Post by: lui75 on March 20, 2013, 07:15:28 PM

Quote from: desiv;729798

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5Iby5KqWQ

This might help...

desiv

Thank you so much! It worked!