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Offline CJK3o3

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Re: Amiga 500 plus not reading floppy discs - any ideas?
« on: December 09, 2012, 10:40:32 PM »
Plenty of old miggys have issues with their old floppy drives. You can get a pc one and modify it to work with yours but to make it fit you will need to make a custom mount and cut off a piece of metal from the upper part of it. That and of course slightly modding the board.

From my experience, if a floppy drive doesnt read disks even after a good cleaning with a floppy cleaner kit then its most likely rubbish and can't be fixed :(

PC drives are cheap though and there are plenty of them, the ones that can be easily modded are sony and panasonic floppies. Teacs work too.