Floppy Drives

[Dalamar]

Forgive the ignorance, but is there any reason a 1010 floppy drive would not work on an A3000D?  It works fine on my 4000, but the 3k it wont read disks on.

[Dalamar]

All that you ask is true.  The drive powers up fine, but when a disk is put in it wont read.  The 3000 was a recent purchase and the internal drive is dead.  I'm trying to make do with the external but it's not working out.  Workbench (2.05) reports the disk drive as DF2 and the description of every disk I insert is NODOS.

[Dalamar]

Hmmm....  That is something that never occured to me.  The battery was leaking quite badly when I got the machine.  I've cleaned it up but there was a lot of corrosion.  Paula was close to the corrosion.  I'll take a harder look at it, thanks very much.

[Dalamar]

It's also worthwhile swapping the two CIAs over as one could have an I/O pin problem.  If the floppy starts working, but the parallel port or something now fails to work correctly, you'll know there is a CIA fault.

Not sure where they are on the 3000.  I'm also going to try to replace the floppy ribbon cable.  Do you know if they are the same as PC floppy cables?  I have many of those.

[Dalamar]

Thanks for tha info.  :-)