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XL HD Floppy Drive
« on: September 26, 2005, 12:12:50 AM »
I picked up the remains of an XL High Density floppy drive at Big Bash 3 but it seems to be missing a couple of wires. I'd like to attempt to repair it but do not know what they are and where they go to. From looking  at my Amitek external drive it looks like they might be the 5V feed to the floppy drive, but i don't know for sure. Would anyone be willing to whip the lid off their working drive and take a picture of the circuit board? I need the back of the floppy drive to be in-shot and the top of the PCB patch board (the side with the ICs on).

Does anyone know what floppy drives these units used, apart fro mthe fact they are clearly 5V only not 5V/12V like a standard PC floppy. Are they Amiga floppy drives or PC drives with a patch logic on the card?

Thirdly and finally can anyone point me to or send me the drivers? I have a patched version that does CacheClear on the data caches, but I'd like to try the originals (I'm not running an 060 anyway).

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Re: XL HD Floppy Drive
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2005, 10:16:10 AM »
Thanks guys. InTheSand - that'd be great.

Does that mean that the drive is a standard PC floppy? My understanding was they were 2MB PC drives with a patch board, but the drive looks like a 2MB version of the drive in my Amitek external unit. So are Amitek drives also PC drives with a patchboard?
Mark Benson - Realist and Curmudgeon -
http://www.lincsamiga.org.uk/
A2000 040/25
A4000 060/50
Ultra-600 Project
A1200 \\\'C=Flash\\\' games machine
CD32
EFIKA 5200B