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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: thanos on April 22, 2010, 07:26:01 PM
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Hello, I believe I have a couple of dead floppy drives
I have tried a few floppy disks on my A1200, and they work, but not on the other drives.
I have an A2000 with an extra floppy drive, neither the internal or external seem to work.
I discovered that Amigakit sells replacements, what type of unit can I use to repair the external unit with?
I plan to order replacements, but I don't know what to repair the external drive with.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello, I believe I have a couple of dead floppy drives
I have tried a few floppy disks on my A1200, and they work, but not on the other drives.
I have an A2000 with an extra floppy drive, neither the internal or external seem to work.
I discovered that Amigakit sells replacements, what type of unit can I use to repair the external unit with?
I plan to order replacements, but I don't know what to repair the external drive with.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
can you post a little more info on the external drive? Mabe a picture? If it looks like a regular drive under the shell a normal internal drive should work :) So open it up and look or post pictures.
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Have you tried cleaning the drives? I've found amazing large dust bunnies in drives that haven't been used for a few decades. Get some compressed air and blow out any muck before you toss the drives.
What does workbench say when you put a disk in the drive? Have you tried formatting a blank disk? Last year I was about to toss an A3000 drive but a good cleaning was all that was needed...
Good luck!
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Sorry about not being more specific, but there is not a lot of information on the drive itself.
OK, let me know if the photo helps.
Thanks.
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ye cleaning could fix it, what happens when you fire a disk up in it? Does it read a disk at all and does is just give you NoDF0?
Tell us what happens and post a picture of its inside, good chances are that It houses a standard internal drive under the shell :)
edit: sorry you posted just a few secs before me :) I bet it has a standard internal drive, to be sure open it and post a picture of the inside :)
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OK, I'll give a cleaning, but in the mean time, I snapped a couple more photos.
I am surprised by the actual size of the drive mechanism.
I can post later with details on how the drive fails, I can't remember accurately.
I should be doing other stuff, heh, but heck, that other stuff won't make me happy will it?
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OK, I'll give a cleaning, but in the mean time, I snapped a couple more photos.
I am surprised by the actual size of the drive mechanism.
I can post later with details on how the drive fails, I can't remember accurately.
I should be doing other stuff, heh, but heck, that other stuff won't make me happy will it?
Hmm as I tbhought a standard internal drive will work just fine :] tho its hard to see on this picture but is the drive not a littlebit thicker then a standard one? If it is a standard will work but you have to remove the front panel to get access to it, but only if its thicker :]
edit: if its thicker it migt be enough to put something under the drive to get it at the same hight as the front panel :] But as said a standard drive will work in that cover without any problems atleast connection wise :]
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That's an A1010.. An A1000 or A500 floppy mechanism will fit inside
You will need to use a bit of creativity to get the access led to work with the A500 mechanism.
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Hmmm, I connected the external drive to my A1200 and it works, when connected to the A2000 I get a "DF0:BAD" and "DF2:BAD".
I was attempting to use a PC serial port to Amiga floppy adapter cable at one point, it is connected to the Amiga, but not to a PC at this time.
I was never able to get it to work correctly, I will disconnect that cable and test further.
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Hello, I believe I have a couple of dead floppy drives
I have tried a few floppy disks on my A1200, and they work, but not on the other drives.
I have an A2000 with an extra floppy drive, neither the internal or external seem to work.
I discovered that Amigakit sells replacements, what type of unit can I use to repair the external unit with?
I plan to order replacements, but I don't know what to repair the external drive with.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.