Gayle on the A600 Damaged?

[leirbag28]

 Hi everyone, I just noticed that my external Floppy port does not work on my A600. I checked it because I noticed I accidentally allowed some metal to make contat with the serial and floppy ports at the same time.............so I said to myself "boy I hope I didn't damage anything" so then I checked both the serial (works but sluggish) and the floppy which does not work.

 I am not sure if it was damaged prior to this or maybe because I might have plugged a SilverSurfer adapter ontop of the Gayle chip incorrectly?

 So basically my question is...if the external floppy port is damaged, does this mean the Gayle chip is damaged?

I want it to work because I want to install a Subway USB card via the silversurfer Gayle chip adaptor.

 I tried the A600 without the adaptor and without my Apollo 630 and the eternal floppy still doesnt work.

please help.

[leirbag28]

Everything seems ok ecept for the Serial port which seems slow..........I am not sure if its supposed to be that way.....I was trying to use the SCALA ECHO EE100 to control my Video camera through the LANC port but its sluggish and buttons dont react right away........on my SX32 it works fine! (I think the SX32 may have a enhanced serial port?)

 But I do belive it is the job of Gayle to control at least the internal floppy?

[leirbag28]

hmm I am gonna have to check.......but as far as I know...........I have never ever had successfull printing on an Amiga....except the A1000 more than 10 years ago using a Hewlet Packard LaserJet III, the culprit may be this program called EnPrint which I bought and installed.......and since all my Amigas use the same copied HD, they all have it. But DSS 8 + always works fine.

 But let me go play with my A600 and see whats up.

[leirbag28]

Nope! everything seems to be working............DSS8+ on the parrallel, they joystick works.....sound works....................serial seems to work....................

only the floppy drive does not (the external one)

Harddrive is fine and internal floppy is fine.

so whats up?

by the way I have a similar problem on my 1200 except in that case its the internal one that doesnt work.....evryting else is fine!

[leirbag28]

Yeah I do have an internal Floppy and its working fine. And yes the External Floppy is dead as a Dodo.

as for the A1200.........I think the internal does NOT work but the light stays on!  and then the external works perfectly (its like the exact opposite problem of my A600)

I have a multimeter somewhere I think