Amiga 3.5" external disk drive

[thanos]

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.

[thanos]

Sorry about not being more specific, but there is not a lot of information on the drive itself.

OK, let me know if the photo helps.

Thanks.

[thanos]

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?

[thanos]

Hmmm, I connected the external drive to my A1200 and it works, when connected to the A2000 I get a "DF0:BAD" and "DF2:BAD".

I was attempting to use a PC serial port to Amiga floppy adapter cable at one point, it is connected to the Amiga, but not to a PC at this time.

I was never able to get it to work correctly, I will disconnect that cable and test further.