I scavenged a FZ-357 floppy drive from an old PC that a fellow from work gave me. I've been looking for a drive that would replace my old external drive OR even better - replace my low density internal drive. (My A1200 is a Commodore, not AT)
My external drive is a 'Golden Image' drive. It consists of a Sony drive with a PCB (assumably containing circuits needed to adapt the sony to the amiga) mounted in a stylish case with the external cord from it to the amiga. I destroyed the drive somehow.. it was a long time ago and I don't remember what I did to it -something about trying to connect it directly to my internal connector maybe?
Anyway, I heard two conficting reports about the Chinon FZ-357. Is it ONLY the FZ-357A that will work with amigas, or does the FZ-357 (without the A) work with some amiga models? One amiga forum indicated that the FZ-357 works with the A1200. Others say that it's only a PC drive. But, furthermore, AT 1200 models apparently shipped with a Panasonic drive installed which had to be modded to work with the amiga FD controller.
Whether or not the FZ-357 can work with my A1200, I'm sure that one of you can tell me how to get this chinon to work! Will I need to modify it? (it has the DS0,1,2, and 3 jumper settings external yay!) The other jumper settings are shown embossed on the drive cover - some other settings are MM, MD, RDY, DC, TT-L/C-MOS. Currently these settings are MM, DC, and the jumper is in for the TT-L/C-MOS setting.
Other than that, once it works, will the high density drive pose any problems for workbench 3.1?
Thanks!
lanroot
