A600HD problems

[Xamiche]

The chips on the A600 are surface mounted. Replacing the floppy controller chip could be quite a task. Hope you're handy with a soldering iron. Also, I think the floppy controller is in the Paula (Audio and I/O) chip on an Amiga 600. It doesn't have CIA chips. As far as I'm aware.

Edit: No wait. I've found a 8520PL (U8) chip by the floppy connector. It's listed as the CIA for the 600.

[Xamiche]

The A600HD's floppy drive is the same type, but it's physically shorter. The A500 and A1200 FDs wont physically fit in the A600 case. I had to replace a 600 FD a few years back and had to order one specifically for the 600. I'm pretty sure he said that he tried another FD and that didn't work either.

DD One Wrote:
...I've tried to replace the internal disc drive without any luck.

Unless I'm reading it wrong and what he meant was he 'tried' to replace the FD but could not replace it. As opposed to 'tried' replacing the FD, but the disk still wouldn't boot.  :-?