Looking for PC to Amiga Floppy Drive Conversion Resources

[spaceman88]

I am looking for info on converting a PC HD 3.5 inch floppy drive to a Amiga DD floppy drive. I have only been able to find bits and pieces of info about it and only a couple drives. Does anyone know of a good resource for these modifications? I need to replace the drive in my Amiga 1000. The drive in it is not the original, but it is having issues. I am picking up a bunch of drives today for free and hopping one of them will work.

There's this..... http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=30944
I've converted a few, had best luck with Panasonic drives.

[spaceman88]

Thanks. Out of the drives I picked up, only one of them was working properly and fortnightly it wasn't a model that would get full functionality. However, I had a drive in my Win 98 machine that would work, so I swapped those two. I made the necessary modifications to the drive, and it works great! I will have to check later if it is indeed fully compatible. I have herd some applications have issues with some of these modified drives.

The source for the mod on this drive is here http://jope.fi/drives/sfd321b/

A Samsung 321 drive was one of the drives I converted as well. Unfortunately it worked fine for reading the disk but gave errors when writing. Not sure if it was just a problem with that particular drive or if I did something wrong.