duff internal A500 drive?

[Cyberus]

Hi,
Just got my original Amiga out of retirement. I stick a floppy in the internal DD, power up, and.....
All I get is the WB requester - now, I'm assuming the drive is %*&$ked...any suggestions?
(other than 'buy a new Amiga', 'buy a new drive', etc.)

Ta

[Cyberus]

I tried a few other disks to now avail, then I took the miggy apart.
Sheesh - I suppose that was 13 years of dust....

And now the drive clicks - it didn't before - and the machine boots! But now, all the disks I try give me read/write errors - they are all old disks, but I'm sure they aren't all knackered, so it must be the drive

Boo hoo, was looking forward to playing around with my original Amiga...

[Cyberus]

the reason I was using them is that I knew that they'd run OK on 1.3 ROM, plus the fact that a real nostalgia trip must have the early software too, now where's the disk with 'The Very First' on....?  :-D

[Cyberus]

In the A500, some are Chinon drives, some Panasonic (part nos?). Anyone have any ideas of where to get them from?

[Cyberus]

but alas they seem to charge between 10 and 30 GBP..bloody rip-off if you ask me...who ever said that Amiga users were a captive market...