Mirage A1200 tower - the floppy drive faceplate

[blakespot]

I am in the process of ordering a Mirage tower for A1200.  I built a Winner Tower A1200 a while back and the faceplate that came glued in place on it was shaped to fit the A1200's internal floppy drive.  The eject button poked thru at the proper point, etc.

I now have an A1200 motherboard - no floppy drive included - on its way for me to put in the Mirage for A1200 - what kind of floppy drive do I need?  Is the internal floppy drive in the A2000 and A500 the same, physically, as the A1200's as far as it fitting whatever faceplate the Mirage will come with?  If I grab a drive off eBay from A500/A2000, will it fit in the Mirage 1200 case / floppy faceplate?

Thanks.


blakespot

[blakespot]

You mean a non-Commodore, external Amiga drive?  Hmm...maybe I'd have been better off getting a used A1200 so I could have a drive from it.  I have some thing about "new" hardware so went with Vesalia's "new" A1200 mobo...  Hmm...


blakespot

[blakespot]

...so was that right?  A slim-line, non-Commodore external 3.5" drive will work in the A1200 Mirage?  A2000/A500 drives won't?


blakespot

[blakespot]

Does the Mirage 1200 tower come with a faceplate for the 3.5" drive, like the WinnerTower did?


bp

[blakespot]

Would this drive:

Pic here

Work fine in the A1200 Mirage tower?  Or is it too thin??  Seems thinner than the faceplate that came with the Winner Tower I used to have.  Thanks.



blakespot

[blakespot]

Catweasel does not work properly.  I spent hours - days going back and forth with the developer of the device trying to get it working on a new A1200 I had in '00.  It never worked.  The developer of the device was incorrect in certain assumptions he made with regards to the A1200 motherboard.

I will not touch that device that I wasted $$ on nor waste any of my time with it again.



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