I may have done something stupid... again.
I had amiga 1200 half naked. wanted to test out floppy drive which had always been a solid, good and nice healthy drive! anyway I forgot that the pcb of the fd is exposed at the bottom. I had the fd resting on the 1200 mb shield. I cannot remember count for count but I know at some point I turned the amiga on and I heard a single noise from the fd and from then until now it is just cold dead.
I have tested another drive and that works. I have re tested the borked drive using the same cables in the same orientation of the test drive and still dead. I don't know if I have shorted something on the pcb of the drive due to resting on shield or if I put in the 4 pin in the incorrect way on the mb or drive. but I don't think I could have because they can only.fit in one way!
what is likely the issue? There was no burning aroma!
I did the same thing a few months back. I had allowed the drive's PCB to ground on the Amiga's shield. Checking the PCB, I couldn't find any burns or any place where the magic smoke might have escaped so I finally gave up and just replaced the dead drive with a PC drive that I modified for Amiga use. Takes about about 15 minutes as long as you pick one of the very easy to modify PC drives. I just had to solder a jumper wire, move an SMD resistor and and cut a trace.
