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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Cyberus on September 01, 2003, 05:01:14 PM
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Hi,
Just got my original Amiga out of retirement. I stick a floppy in the internal DD, power up, and.....
All I get is the WB requester - now, I'm assuming the drive is %*&$ked...any suggestions?
(other than 'buy a new Amiga', 'buy a new drive', etc.)
Ta
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How can you be sure it isn't the disk that's screwed? Does the drive attempt to access the disk, does the insert disk logo disappear for a second? Does the drive click as if it's empty?
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@Cyberus
I suggest you, to clean your FD drive heads with a cleaning disk or open it and clean the heads directly with isopr. alchool . . . .then buy a new drive :-D
Ciao
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I tried a few other disks to now avail, then I took the miggy apart.
Sheesh - I suppose that was 13 years of dust....
And now the drive clicks - it didn't before - and the machine boots! But now, all the disks I try give me read/write errors - they are all old disks, but I'm sure they aren't all knackered, so it must be the drive
Boo hoo, was looking forward to playing around with my original Amiga...
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I doubt that floppy disks can generally last 13 years :-) Some, but not all :-)
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the reason I was using them is that I knew that they'd run OK on 1.3 ROM, plus the fact that a real nostalgia trip must have the early software too, now where's the disk with 'The Very First' on....? :-D
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I used a floppy from an a600 in the a4000 desktop i put together , a600,s are cheap to buy secondhand because not many people like them .Mine was found in the boot of a car in a scrapyard . :-)
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In the A500, some are Chinon drives, some Panasonic (part nos?). Anyone have any ideas of where to get them from?
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I used a floppy from an a600 in the a4000 desktop i put together , a600,s are cheap to buy secondhand because not many people like them .Mine was found in the boot of a car in a scrapyard
Almost sounds like the basis of an RSPCA ad... Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Amigas :)
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Amiga vendors sell internal miggy floppy drives, though amigamad's suggestion to get one secondhand is a cheaper option.
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but alas they seem to charge between 10 and 30 GBP..bloody rip-off if you ask me...who ever said that Amiga users were a captive market...
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Cyberus if the drive worked when you put the
machine away, it probably just needs a little
(gentle) compressed air and head cleaning,
unless it was dropped or something. The
cleaning kits are cheap compared to a new drive.
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Almost sounds like the basis of an RSPCA ad... Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Amigas :)
Its the one amiga that is harder to get upgrades for but it is a nice size and whats left of the 600 might get used in some kind of project . :-)
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Searching on ebay about 4:00 in the morning I saw some bloke had come across a whole pallet-load of Amiga internal drives and was selling them off cheap. Sorry I don't remember the link, but it was nostalgia-something-or-other. Try checking ebay.
Also I too have a ton of disks that have gone south on me. 10 years in my slightly damp basement was just too much for them. Sigh, that was some good stuff, too! Atleast I can look at the labels and remember, and hopefully download them from somewhere...