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Offline SilverZguruTopic starter

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Amiga 500 is acting strangley
« on: April 18, 2012, 05:40:29 PM »
Hi!
Got another A500 rev 5 for 5 euro from recycling center. The case of this amiga is in terrible condition. I plugged it in to my another (tidy and working one's) power supply, and put the RGB video to scart cable in. Turned Amiga on and what I got was Kickstart 1.3 screen. So, I tried to put WB1.3 disk in, but AmigaDOS kept telling me something like "Not a DOS disk in unit DF0:" or "You MUST replace volume "Workbench 1.3" in DF0:!!!!" Or something like that. Drive reads "non DOS" disks that doesn't use OFS/FSS file system.

Tried to replace that drive from rev 5 to my rev 6 newer amiga, but same results. Also tried to clean heads, but no dice.

-Eemil
Just some beginner stuff: 2 Amiga 500s, external FD, 512kb expansion mem, RGB Scart, some random joysticks :lol:, Amiga mouse (Tank model) and some floppies... And a dead Commodore 64C with Datassette cassette drive and RGB->composite wire. And some tapes, self made with computer and normal recordable cassette deck :)
 

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Re: Amiga 500 is acting strangley
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 08:02:07 PM »
Sorry guys! I wrote that post too quickly, but I meant that I tried REV 5's (old Amiga 500's what I got from recycle center) "Chinon" brand floppy drive in my primary Amiga 500 (rev 6, what I bought from internet). And same results. As I mentioned in my first post, loading errors shows up only in OFS/FFS filesystem applications. Other works well ex. Lotus 2, Zool etc. what uses custom loaders. Floppy drive makes strange sound, when loading and seems like that the "disk swap" is not working correctly...

My never Amiga 500 (rev 6) what has green power light and yellow floppy light, has Panasonic's FD, what is much worse than the Chinon (in rev 5 what has red power light and green floppy light.) Chinon can handle HD floppies as DDs perfectly, when Panasonic can't read them at all.

I hope that this post was now more understandable than the first one :).

And I have external FD what works fine in Rev6 and I believe that it works too in  Rev 5 as the Rev 5's fd won't work the proper way in rev 6, so I believe that Rev5's chinon is faulty.

-Eemil
« Last Edit: April 18, 2012, 08:05:24 PM by SilverZguru »
Just some beginner stuff: 2 Amiga 500s, external FD, 512kb expansion mem, RGB Scart, some random joysticks :lol:, Amiga mouse (Tank model) and some floppies... And a dead Commodore 64C with Datassette cassette drive and RGB->composite wire. And some tapes, self made with computer and normal recordable cassette deck :)
 

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Re: Amiga 500 is acting strangley
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2012, 05:14:15 PM »
Hi guys!
Thanks for those answers. I think that my english skills aren't good enough to get you understandable answer, so I made this little vid: http://youtu.be/az9GSJgonjY

If you can see, FD is really just bugging, glitching, giving errors etc.

Sorry it is little bit too long, but I hope that helps to diagnose the problem.

-Eemil
Just some beginner stuff: 2 Amiga 500s, external FD, 512kb expansion mem, RGB Scart, some random joysticks :lol:, Amiga mouse (Tank model) and some floppies... And a dead Commodore 64C with Datassette cassette drive and RGB->composite wire. And some tapes, self made with computer and normal recordable cassette deck :)