Can anyone fix Amiga Floppy Drives?

[sbeehre]

Another alternative that I've been using is modifying PC drives to work with Amiga's... its very easy and only involves soldering 2 wires onto the floppy drives circuit board.

1- Set the unit as DS0, instead of DS1 (standard for IBM floppy drives);

2- Route the 34 pin trace to pin 2 and cut it from 34;

3- Join pins 30 & 34.

Works perfectly with any drive, if you locate the ds0/ds1 switch/shunt/selector/whatever. Even with Xcopy and Non-DOS games.

[sbeehre]

Do you has pics of this trick?  I would love to try this with a freebie drive I have.

No problem i will do that later on... the model of drive I'm using is an Alps DF354H022F which is from an IBM M50 as we have a lot lying around here at work. The good thing is that DS1 and DS0 are labeled and are turned on or off by a solder blob.

[sbeehre]

Ok here is the pic of what i did with my afore mentioned floppy drive... as you can see in the pic ive removed the solder blob on DS1 and put it on DSO then i cut the trace right by pin 34 and then soldered a wire from the ALPS-R chip to pin 2. The pin on the chip would have gone to pin 34 had i not cut the trace. Then i just connected pin 34 to 30 and its all ready to go and be an Amiga floppy drive