A4000D Is the Floppy HD or DD? Or just jacked...

[slaapliedje]

So I happen to have another 3GB hard drive floating around, and wanted to set up and try get a 'better' Amiga setup than my current slightly broken version running OS3.9.

So I popped in a brand new floppy disk (they are getting hard to find!) and formatted it.  It initially formatted as 1760KB.  I started copying over the Emergency-Boot files, then it gave me a write error.  I tried several times to get it to write, but finally canceled.  Then tried formatting the same floppy on my PC, it worked fine.

Then I popped it back into the Amiga, tried to format it and now it would only format as 880KB.  So I popped in a different floppy, and a different... well all of them only offered to format as 880KB.

I have tried rebooting, unplugging the whole thing, etc.  Still only 880KB.  I was going to check to make sure it was clean inside, but the front of the A4000 was being a pain, so I gave up on that, booted it back up but the same thing...

Any ideas?  Does this mean my drive is going bad?  I did format as 880KB just fine, but the OS3.9 Emergency-Boot disk is larger than that.

Any help greatly appreciated.

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Kind of what I figured.  I really dislike floppies too, never have had much luck with them.  

Any hints on getting the floppy drive out?  I made that half attempt yesterday, but didn't want to snap anything on the front.

I'm now googling for fitting it on 880KB disks though

Thanks for the really quick response!

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

It is indeed the 357A.  As I had said, it initially did show 1760KB.  I finished cleaning it out and putting it all back together (talk about a pain, needing to pop out the Radeon and Network, then Mediator, then CD-ROM, etc...)

It is now formatting at 1760KB.

Out of curiosity, I just did a google for Mounting RAD, but most people said it didn't survive a warmboot, so how exactly would I use that instead?  

slaapliedje