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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: dangermouse on November 18, 2009, 08:41:53 AM

Title: A1200 floppy drive problem
Post by: dangermouse on November 18, 2009, 08:41:53 AM

Hi

My A1200 is having a strange floppy 'recognition' problem.

If I boot the machine without a floppy in her (or HDD) it shows the Kickstart screen (fine). However, the floppy drive is not 'clicking' in an attempt to find a disk. If I insert a disk nothing happens.

If I boot the 1200 with a bootable floppy already in the drive the machine boots fine (in this case WB 3.0 Install Disk). When I got that far (WB Install Disk successfully booted into WB) I removed the Install floppy but WB did not recognise that the floppy had been removed (or changed for that matter).

Is there a jumper or setting somewhere that controls this behaviour or does she have a fault? I can't for the life of me remember if the floppy 'seek' feature can be turned on/off.

Any help appreciated

DM

Title: Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
Post by: dangermouse on November 18, 2009, 09:09:39 AM

Problem solved

Title: Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
Post by: gertsy on November 18, 2009, 12:57:10 PM

What was it...?

Title: Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
Post by: dangermouse on November 18, 2009, 07:07:57 PM

Don't work in the dark :) I'd misaligned the connector on the motherboard. Amazingly the floppy worked but the 'polling' stopped..go figure.

Title: Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
Post by: dougal on November 18, 2009, 10:26:44 PM

That is a problem i found also when modifying PC drives to work as Amiga ones. It would do that for me if not properly or fully modded.