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Offline JoskiRockTopic starter

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Amiga 2000 Internal Floppy Drives
« on: December 06, 2007, 02:07:04 AM »
Hi, I have 2 internal Floppy drives in my amiga 2000, and I have been having problems with them both. I took them apart and cleaned the heads and re-lubricated the motor spindle that moves the head unit. I was hoping that had something to do with why my disk drives were acting up, but it hasnt fixed the problem. It seems that when a disk is inseted in the drive(s), it periodicly acts like I have removed the disk and put it back in. The disk icon goes away then comes back on the Workbench screen and the drive starts spinning like I had put a disk in, but there is one already in there!! If someone could tell me what switch or device is responsible for identifying that a disk is in the drive, I may be able to fix it. It is giving me fits trying to create ADFs because it keeps thinking I removed the disk when I didnt. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I have a very good floppy in my amiga 500 and wanted to know if there is a way to use it in my amiga 2000 in case I can't repair the other drives.

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Re: Amiga 2000 Internal Floppy Drives
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 09:46:39 AM »
AMC258,

You were right on.... I opened up the Amiga and was messing with the power plug to the floppies and the drives started messing up. I spliced on a new end and they are working great now. It doesnt act like I removed the disk anymore :-D

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