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Offline dangermouseTopic starter

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A1200 floppy drive problem
« on: November 18, 2009, 08:41:53 AM »
Hi

My A1200 is having a strange floppy 'recognition' problem.

If I boot the machine without a floppy in her (or HDD) it shows the Kickstart screen (fine). However, the floppy drive is not 'clicking' in an attempt to find a disk. If I insert a disk nothing happens.

If I boot the 1200 with a bootable floppy already in the drive the machine boots fine (in this case WB 3.0 Install Disk). When I got that far (WB Install Disk successfully booted into WB) I removed the Install floppy but WB did not recognise that the floppy had been removed (or changed for that matter).

Is there a jumper or setting somewhere that controls this behaviour or does she have a fault? I can't for the life of me remember if the floppy 'seek' feature can be turned on/off.

Any help appreciated

DM
A4000D CyberstormPPC 66/363 128MB Mediator 4000Di Radeon 9250 Deneb IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
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A600 ACA030/25 A604 IndivisionECS 4GB CF HDD
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Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 09:09:39 AM »
Problem solved
A4000D CyberstormPPC 66/363 128MB Mediator 4000Di Radeon 9250 Deneb IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A4000D CyberstormPPC 50/233 128MB CybervisionPPC 16GB CF HDD
A1200 BPPC 50/240 128MB IndivisionAGA
A600 ACA030/25 A604 IndivisionECS 4GB CF HDD
A600
CD32/SX32Pro 030/50/128MB IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A500
A500+
 

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Re: A1200 floppy drive problem
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 07:07:57 PM »
Don't work in the dark :) I'd misaligned the connector on the motherboard. Amazingly the floppy worked but the 'polling' stopped..go figure.
A4000D CyberstormPPC 66/363 128MB Mediator 4000Di Radeon 9250 Deneb IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A4000D CyberstormPPC 50/233 128MB CybervisionPPC 16GB CF HDD
A1200 BPPC 50/240 128MB IndivisionAGA
A600 ACA030/25 A604 IndivisionECS 4GB CF HDD
A600
CD32/SX32Pro 030/50/128MB IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A500
A500+