Amiga 3.5" external disk drive

[som99]

Hello, I believe I have a couple of dead floppy drives

I have tried a few floppy disks on my A1200, and they work, but not on the other drives.

I have an A2000 with an extra floppy drive, neither the internal or external seem to work.

I discovered that Amigakit sells replacements, what type of unit can I use to repair the external unit with?

I plan to order replacements, but I don't know what to repair the external drive with.

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

can you post a little more info on the external drive? Mabe a picture? If it looks like a regular drive under the shell a normal internal drive should work So open it up and look or post pictures.

[som99]

ye cleaning could fix it, what happens when you fire a disk up in it? Does it read a disk at all and does is just give you NoDF0?

Tell us what happens and post a picture of its inside, good chances are that It houses a standard internal drive under the shell

edit: sorry you posted just a few secs before me I bet it  has a standard internal drive, to be sure open it and post a picture of the inside

[som99]

OK, I'll give a cleaning, but in the mean time, I snapped a couple more photos.

I am surprised by the actual size of the drive mechanism.

I can post later with details on how the drive fails, I can't remember accurately.

I should be doing other stuff, heh, but heck, that other stuff won't make me happy will it?

Hmm as I tbhought a standard internal drive will work just fine :] tho its hard to see on this picture but is the drive not a littlebit thicker then a standard one? If it is a standard will work but you have to remove the front panel to get access to it, but only if its thicker :]

edit: if its thicker it migt be enough to put something under the drive to get it at the same hight as the front panel :] But as said a standard drive will work in that cover without any problems atleast connection wise :]