A500 replacement FDD

[orange]

AFAIK, if you get all green 0 with x-copy then everything is fine.
It can only be compatibility then, what kickstart do you have in A500? How much memory, is it slowfast, what games are you trying?

[Daniele]

Orange

everything is fine if I use original Chinon but if I use Vesalia FDD it's going to be a mess!!!!
that's it!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I wanna solve this problem you know!!!!

[CLS2086]

Hi, sorry but you can't !
Why ?
Because old 720/880ko got 'larger' head, given them reliability, and it was also due to bad discs heavily spread on the market at that time....
Actuel HD FDD got thiner head to put twice the amount of datas.

My personnal solution :
Look at the thread about the A3000 FDD (i give my nice trick to relive lots of drives).
On my A1200GREX, I use a modern Panasonic HD FDD for DF0: but i have a good Citizen 42C (it cames from an external fdd box) for DF1:

Why that ?
Because the Panasonic is highly sensitive to 'dying' or 'bad  quality disc', so when i got when of theses disc, i put it on my Citizen who read it easily  :idea:
So I can make a backup on a new fresh disc who will work everywere and for a longtime (I hope).
And if it's worth than that, I have my A1k and it's wonderfull drive  ;-)

[elpiloto]

hi,
Here is a small company that sells new fdd for use with amiga, the floppys works great, i have 3 of this ones, one on my 500, 1200 and on one of my external floppys. The only bad thing is that for use them on amiga 500 600 or 1200 u have to cut a peace of the buton, or cut a small pice of the chasis or use it out of the amiga, but come on, everybody can make a small and simple modification, the very good thing is this floppys works great and you will be able to load all your amiga stuff from floppys, works 100%

cheers
elpiloto

[Daniele]

elpiloto

can u give me any info about this company selling these floppy disc drivers?

thank u

[elpiloto]

i sent u a pm with contact information

cheers

[orange]

that small company is probably selling modified PC floppys and you can easily do that by yourself, just swap few wires and add diode (instructions are on aminet)

[elpiloto]

i dont know, but the fdd works perfectly, you dont need to swap any wire on this fdd, you use the original amiga fdd flat cable, only disconnect the old and conect the new on

cheers