Floppy expander?

[Linchpin]

Is it not the Escom a1200 FDD adaptor for use with those Panasonic drives (After they ran out of proper amiga ones)??

Excuse the bad ascii drawing, but its kinda like this


    ______  <- floppy goes in here
    |
____|_____  <- a1200 mobo (FDD socket)

[Linchpin]

Becouse the Panasonic drives were "hacked" to slow them down when escom ran out of the drives. Does it say "Amiga Technologies" on it?

[Linchpin]

This is one from an A4000T, but i *think* they look the same.

[Linchpin]

Ok. Basically that small PCB converts the Amiga drive signals so that they can be used with a non - amiga specific drive. However, you cannot just hook up a normal PC drive. The only type of drive that fits on that PCB is the type of drive in the Escom amiga's (when they had no more Chinon / Proper amiga drives) left in stock, but were still producing Amiga's. They work ok for about 99% of amiga software, but your best option is to remove it and the Panasonic drive, and connect an Amiga 500 drive direct onto the a1200 motherboard.

Hope that helps!

Kevin

[Linchpin]

Indeed. I am still using one of those in my a1200T due to the Panasonic drive, but i have DF0 and DF1 so if it gives me any crap i can use the Cumana drive.

I have an a500 chinon drive to go in ASAP but i am trying to get this Sony drive to work also :-(