A2000

[gertsy]

Holy crap!  A fur-lined floppy!

OK, there's only one way to clean this.  Take a small fluffy kitten, comb it vigorously with a nylon brush until balloons are drawn to it and then rub the kitten gently over the drive until the kitten is dustier than the drive.

Works like a charm.  

That'll just make your Kitty mean..!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

[mechy]

Guilty! sorry about that!

Many times the grease hardens on the floppy stepper worm gears. you can take a toothpick and remove all the old grease and add a tiny amount(TINY!) of new lithium grease.

Cleanthe heads with isopropyl alcohol and blow the drive out well with air,cleaning the disk switches helps with contact cleaner too.

i have saved tons of so called "junk" drives that way.

Mech

SO what up with my A2000 floppy drive.. HELLO. hijacked thread..hehe.  I could do away with the internal floppy put in a blank go with a SD card reader in the back + an external Floppy. .

Rich
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[mechy]

yeah kinda like me..haha.. here is my dusty old floppy.. .

Rich

AND i thought this place was dusty.. thats a bad one.. seen a few almost that bad in my time.

mech

[mechy]

Mechy wrote a reply recently that was rather thorough and I have 100% confidence in his products and ability to sqaure things away if/when there are problems. I don't believe SCSI to be "black magic", but I have run across my fair share of completely idiotic and unexplainable behaviors dealing with SCSI all these years.  

Latest one has to do with a Plextor CD writer where the 2091 card stubbornly refuses to boot the HD quickly as it would if there were a non-writer installed. With a CD in the drive, the 2091 card *does* allow for a quicker boot, but is still not as fast to get off its ass upon a reset/cold boot. And yes, all settings and config scenarios have been covered. *This* is the sole reason I'm even considering one of his SCSI<>card readers, BUT... I've got another question about his reader, which I'll do in a PM.  

The best and only way to get great scsi is to have it on the accelerator, its usually night and day speed wise. All these old cards like the 2091 do work,but are zorro2 and slow. Adding at least 512K ram or more to the 2091 makes it quicker also,since it can DMA to it.Updating the 2091 WD scsi chip helps when you are using more than one drive and impliments the full scsi II command set properly-Problems can creed up with more than 1 drive with the old WD-04 chips(proto makes no diff). There were many buggy amiga scsi cards out there and some accelerators with bad scsi(apollo cough!)

the zorro3 A4091(rev 7 roms) and fastlane z3 have good scsi though.

Most problems can be easily explained.

Mech

[Vlabguy1]

Guilty! sorry about that!

Many times the grease hardens on the floppy stepper worm gears. you can take a toothpick and remove all the old grease and add a tiny amount(TINY!) of new lithium grease.

Cleanthe heads with isopropyl alcohol and blow the drive out well with air,cleaning the disk switches helps with contact cleaner too.

i have saved tons of so called "junk" drives that way.

Mech

Thanks Mech,

Well cleaned out the dust... tried it out but no dice.  I didn't get in to it further as I have floppy drive from a 4000, which I cleaned at the same time I did the 2000 floppy, and she works just fine.  I will have to swap eject buttons as to color match the bezel and case .

The problematic 2000 floppy drive .. I never heard that "snick/click" sound when the drive is inserted.  
Oh dang.. I wanted to take a pic of the Splitfire board that is in das 2000...
Rich
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