A2000

[Darrin]

Mechy sells a nice SCSI card reader (CF, SD, Momory Stick, PCMCIA) that would look perfect in that free floppy slot.  

[Darrin]

I can't quite figure the AMIGA community out at times. I announced these card readers a good while back.Many of you have bought them and are using them now. It seems most make assumptions instead of reading the info or simply asking(save2600 did ask btw). Most seem afraid to email me for help and i am always just a email away either here or the store. I was slow getting info out,but for those who emailed me,we had their reader up and working on their amiga in 10 mins in most cases.SCSi isn't black magic,and these card readers are not voodoo,they do work. The biggest problem i see if people don't educate them on the basics of how scsi work,its very simple in most cases and a little knowledge goes along way.Some other cases they are using old badly implimented scsi controllers or old roms. This is not the fault of scsi,blame the maker of the card. What is worse i guess is the forums are filled with scsi MIS-Information. This gets repeated over the years.
Just so everyone knows, when you buy a card reader from me,i do stand behind it,and i will give person one on one help if you need it.

Sorry to hijack your thread!

Mech

I'll vouch for what Mechy said.  He even sent me an email when he hadn't heard from me to check that the product was working OK!

You can trust this guy 1000%.  He stands behind everything he sells.

[Darrin]

Mechy wrote a reply recently that was rather thorough and I have 100% confidence in his products and ability to sqaure things away if/when there are problems. I don't believe SCSI to be "black magic", but I have run across my fair share of completely idiotic and unexplainable behaviors dealing with SCSI all these years.  

Latest one has to do with a Plextor CD writer where the 2091 card stubbornly refuses to boot the HD quickly as it would if there were a non-writer installed. With a CD in the drive, the 2091 card *does* allow for a quicker boot, but is still not as fast to get off its ass upon a reset/cold boot. And yes, all settings and config scenarios have been covered. *This* is the sole reason I'm even considering one of his SCSI<>card readers, BUT... I've got another question about his reader, which I'll do in a PM.  

Don't worry, you're not alone.  There's a reason why I have IDE cards in my big box Amigas.  

[Darrin]

SO what up with my A2000 floppy drive.. HELLO. hijacked thread..hehe.  I could do away with the internal floppy put in a blank go with a SD card reader in the back + an external Floppy. .

Rich
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Probably just old age.  Try cleaning it otherwise look for a replacement on eBay.

[Darrin]

yeah kinda like me..haha.. here is my dusty old floppy.. .

Rich

Holy crap!  A fur-lined floppy!

OK, there's only one way to clean this.  Take a small fluffy kitten, comb it vigorously with a nylon brush until balloons are drawn to it and then rub the kitten gently over the drive until the kitten is dustier than the drive.

Works like a charm.