witchmaste wrote:
Never mind the post before, I tested an a500 drive in the a1200 and it worked so the original drive is broken. I alos tried cleaning the heads but it didn't work, it just won't read disks. I saw they sell floppy drives for the a1200 on vesalia.de (both for commodore mainboard and escom). Are these 100% compatible with all amiga software?
Commodore=Yes, these are indeed original DD-drives for the A1200.
Escom=No, these are hacked HD PC-drives.
As for the orientation of pin1/the red stripe: The most common is to have the red stripe facing towards the power connector, but Chinon have done it the other way around.... (more specifically the two connectors have switched places, so the red stripe still faces the same way, but since the power connector is on the other side, it faces away from it).
-Paul
