take the board out of the case and shield.
flip it over.
On the bottom of the board look at the floppy connector. If it has a wire jumping any of the pins it needs a standard PC floppy drive. Escom on some of the French made ones cut the disk ready line, and then used a wire to jump the disk change signal. They then added a delay in 3.1 ROMSs for the floppy to spin up to speed because the Amiga no longer knows if this is the case.
This is why some games broke with certain Escom A1200s because they were waiting for the drive ready signal that will never come.
oh! one more thing if you use a standard PC floppy drive don't put any high density disk in it. The drive will switch to high density mode and the Amiga will freak.
shameless plug section
I have some NOS ( New Old Stock ) A1200 floppy drives for $25.00
I know they are expensive sorry. But they do carry a 120 day warranty.
