Floppy Detection: A Faulty drive?

[CodeHunter]

When I insert a HD 1.44 (Amiga formatted though) in my A600HD, its floppy drive sometimes does not boot from it, and directly goes into Workbench on the hard drive instead. When I cover the second hole with a piece of tape, it gets better, but still sometimes it happens still.

Why?

[lauri.lotvonen]

Do you have HD floppy drive installed in your A600?

If it's the original floppy drive, its only capable of reading/writing DD (double density) formatted amiga disks.

[Franko]

From what you say it sounds like the small pin switches in your drive are either dirty or worn, try giving them a clean with contact cleaner or WD40 (pressing and releasing them quite a few times) and see if that helps...

[a1200]

I am with Franko on this - the drive should work if the disk is Amiga formatted regardless of if the disk is HD or DD (it will still format 880k). Look for 2 small white bits sticking up near the entrance to the drive - one is for floppy insert detect, the other is to detect if the disk is write protected.