Can I use a Chinon 1.44 FZ-357 for A1200?

[TjLaZer]

The ones I have J2 was open and I had to put a solder blob to close it, then it works perfect with disk changes!  Not sure about a component being there, you must have a different run.  Find another drive that does not have anything at J2 and a quick way to ID a drive that will work is to look at the face plate:  If it has a "rounded" area around the opening (where you insert disk) it should work fine.  If it is "boxy" it will not work.  That is just my experience.

[z36ra]

this may or may not help.

http://www.atomiccomputers.com/projects/amiga

..something I experimented with a while back.

mine has a panasonic. I like chinon.

[badalias]

Hmm... Yeah, I read the whole page about 4 days ago, good details, wrong drives... I have a Teac FD-235HF 7373-UF and I've located the DS0/1 Solder pads, but can't make any sense of the rest of them... There seems to be enough of them, but, where do I start? Tried looking up details for this one on Teac's website, but I got no satisfaction...

[Argus]

TjLaZer wrote:
The ones I have J2 was open and I had to put a solder blob to close it, then it works perfect with disk changes!  Not sure about a component being there, you must have a different run.  Find another drive that does not have anything at J2 and a quick way to ID a drive that will work is to look at the face plate:  If it has a "rounded" area around the opening (where you insert disk) it should work fine.  If it is "boxy" it will not work.  That is just my experience.

I tried this J2 solder fix on a "round" FZ357 and now it doesn't work at all.  Oh well, nothing ventured....  On a side note, I just put a sony 1.44 floppy in a older Rev. 2 A4000 and with a jumper change it does work as a dd drive but only with the manual diskchange command (which is not so bad as I hardly ever need to use floppies). It's white and a slim-line jobbie so it fits the machine color-scheme aesthetically. It will also recognize the floppy automatically if it is in the drive on startup.  The lesson: a little fiddlin' can go a long way on a pc drive.

[badalias]

Found another page... This one's about Fujitsu M2537B01B drives. - I have one of these too. Anybody feel like translating/interpreting this?
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/_XOOM/amigazette/numero_03/drive_pc.html

[odin]

Babelfish is your friend :-).

[badalias]

odin wrote:
Babelfish is your friend :-).

Not really, nor are Google language tools. Their translations both lacked the finnesse that a human translator could apply to make it understandable...