Can anyone fix Amiga Floppy Drives?

[TheBilgeRat]

Another alternative that I've been using is modifying PC drives to work with Amiga's... its very easy and only involves soldering 2 wires onto the floppy drives circuit board.

1- Set the unit as DS0, instead of DS1 (standard for IBM floppy drives);

2- Route the 34 pin trace to pin 2 and cut it from 34;

3- Join pins 30 & 34.

Works perfectly with any drive, if you locate the ds0/ds1 switch/shunt/selector/whatever. Even with Xcopy and Non-DOS games.

Do you has pics of this trick?  I would love to try this with a freebie drive I have.

[TheBilgeRat]

OK so after the soldering and the hooking up I get a drive that behaves like an amiga drive but it won't boot off of DF0.  it is a jumpered drive, so I set DF0 via jumper.

Found this:

http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/amiga_floppy_compatibility.html

Basically says the drive I have (Epson SMD-340) doesn't work period...