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My Amiga 500 disk drive issue....
« on: November 28, 2013, 06:09:35 PM »
I just received my Amiga 500 power supply and it looks durable, strong and in excellent condition. As soon as I turn my Amiga 500 on...I do not hear any disk drive activity, I just see the disk drive LED activity on but no clicking, no disk drive activity. The disk drive LED activity is on for 5 seconds before it turns off...then I get the insert disk icon (I am using kickstart 1.3) and when I insert any disk into the disk drive it does not read the disk at all. No clicking from the disk drive and no activity at all from the disk drive. No matter what disk I put into the disk drive...still no activity. I do not know what to do. I do not mind replacing the disk drive with the CF version where would I find that disk drive? However, also I want to get my hands on a real disk drive because I was writing a game in Blitz Basic and I cannot have access to the content if I am using the CF disk drive emulator.....so in away I real need an actual disk drive. Does anyone have a spare Amiga 500 disk drive that is working in mint condition...or if anyone know how to solve my problem with my disk drive I will be greatly appreciate it.
 

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Re: My Amiga 500 disk drive issue....
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 04:25:56 AM »
OK! Before I go into purchasing new disk drive...how do I know it is not the CIA in the motherboard that is causing the problem? How do I know it is not a defect in the motherboard itself and not the disk drive?

Better yet...can I just skip all that and get ma an external disk drive and assign the DF0: into the external disk drive and just boot from the external disk drive itself?