blakespot wrote:
You mean a non-Commodore, external Amiga drive? Hmm...maybe I'd have been better off getting a used A1200 so I could have a drive from it. I have some thing about "new" hardware so went with Vesalia's "new" A1200 mobo... Hmm...
blakespot
Commodore never made floppy drives themselves. The A500/A2000 drives (as well as A1000,A600,A3000 and A4000 drives) will work too.
A500/2000: Too tall. A2000 drive comes with faceplate, but wrong color
A1000: Don't know, i suspect it is similar to A500/2000 drive
A600: same as A1200, perfect fit.
A3000: Too tall, no faceplate
A4000: Might be too tall, some (most?) A4000's shipped with a Tall floppy drive, some with a normal, slim line one.
Anyway... back to the external drives. Yes, they will work perfectly (providing that they actually work in the first place) in your A1200 tower. The floppy drive in my A1200 was a chinon fz-354, I've had several external drives with chinon fz-354 drives inside. Most external drives (at least all 'normal' size ones) use a standard 34-pin ribbon and power plug on the inside, so if you have a spare external drive lying around, butcher it, take the drive and plug it in your a1200. Tada, instant DF0:
-Paul
