Force Amiga floppy drive to write enabled?

[blakespot]

I have an Amiga 1000 with an internal drive that reads all disks as write protected. It is broken in that fashion.

I have a nice external 1010 that I want as an external 1010. I have a spare 1010 that is full of dust and junk and *?#@**?#@**?#@**?#@*. I don't want to put that in my A1000.

Is there a way to mod the floppy cable to force write enable?

Other ideas? Thanks.







bp

[blakespot]

Isn't it an optical detector? There is a small glass tube in the vicinity of the write protect detect arm. The arm swings fine, so not broken. Have hit with compressed air and a brush, not alcohol tho. Oy.




bp