A4000T Floppy writing problem

[dougal]

The floppy drive on my A4000T reads disks perfectly.

But when i write a floppy disk it sometimes says WRITE PROTECTED even though it is Not and after re-inserting the disk it works.

Anyway i go to write an ADF to floppy and it appears to write with no problems.

But when i try to use the disk it doesn't work in any amiga.

I tried different disks, different adf's.

The few rare times the disk actually does work it will be full of errors.

Any idea whats wrong? and how can i fix it?

[dougal]

I'll check it out properly... It could have been my fault.

Basicaly once i inserted a floppy disk and didnt realize the metal sliding disk guard was loose. Anyway the disk wouldnt eject properly and i stuffed a screw driver into the drive to lever the disk out and i think that may have caused the problem.

I say i think because i didnt try writing any disks for quite some time after that and i remember that straight after that incident the drive was trying to read a disk even though no disk was inserted. The problem (of reading with no disk) went away after i inserted and removed a good disk.

I think the drive may need some adjusting.

Anything i should look out for?

[dougal]

I replaced the floppy drive with a spare pc one i had. Luckily it was the exact same model as the other.

Amiga is now working fine