I purchased an Amiga 1200HD with accelerator off of e-bay about 2 months back. When I got it I thought it was damaged in shipping because the drive wouldn't read any standard Amiga Floppy. When I plugged in my external A1010 drive that all worked fine. So I know there isn't a machine problem.
I got some time finally today to open up the machine. It seemed okay except for some silly attempt to cool the CSA 12 Guage with a fan that isn't even attached to the chip..
Anyway, upon opening the machine and looking at the floppy I noticed 2 things..
1) The floppy drive was a "teac" brand drive. This sounded a little strange to me because I thought commodore only used compatible chinon drives. This would be a good reason the drive couldn't read any of my standard Amiga floppy disks.
2) There is also no sign of any kind of catweasel drive controller add on either that might run the teac drive..
Can someone help me verify the fact that the 1200HD never used a teac brand drive and only came standard with a Chinon brand floppy drive?
I would like to replace the internal floppy in case it was either damaged in shipping, or someone just modded it and stuck a bad floppy drive in it.
Does anyone have a source for the smaller (I am guessing half height) Chinon drives. I thought about swapping it with the A1010 drive floppy I have for the A1000 but it doesn't seem to fit (case clearance). My A3000 also has high density floppies and an Amax 2 Plus in it. But that floppy doesn't fit either.
-Don Burnett
