A1200 floppy problems

[vk3heg]

I have just received my Amiga 1200 won on ebay.

It's got a few anoying problems (ie: A1 condition :pissed: : the hard drive wasn't even screwed down, and was being held in by two broken rubber bands. The Blizzard '30 wont slot into the machine unless I remove the heat sink that was attached. I can live/get around those two. The case screws were loose.

What is anoying me is that the floppy drive is stuffed     :madashell: It wont format or read flopyp's. Even freshly working/formated ones from my A500.

I'm wondering if this is normal practice for A1200's to have this model of floppy: Panasonic model JU-257A51P, and on the end of the ribbon cable where it connects to the motherboard is a little circuit board with two resistors, a diode, a capictor and a IC (I would take a photo, but my camera takes crap shots at close range) with these markins:

Made by Philips

TL      74HC03N
HA      960900PS
AN      Hnn9501PC
ID

Is this floppy drive a standard PC floppy with a converter? (Cool if it is as I have heaps of PC floppy drives I could use). I'm rather pissed of if this drive is a standard amiga floppy (it trys to format the floppy as 880K) as they are very hard to find now.

[tokyoracer]

Bumber mate. Bought my 1200 in a car boot for £1
ide search there. My drive is panasonic and hasnt ever been a problem. Cant think of anything but to replace the drive or use an external one.

[odin]

I think the Panasonic drives are indeed the modified standard PC drives which sometimes refuse to load certain games. It sounds like your drive is stuffed.

[amigagr]

the floppy maybe is dirty, try a disk cleaner sometimes makes miracles. the bliz030 don't have any heat sink, maybe this card is overclocked or has some kind of troubles.

[CLS2086]

... or maybe the previous owner thought it was sweet and nice to add a heatsink on a such hot CPU.
Mine doesn't have one too and doesn't crash, that is the PSU the main responsible of crash on a Blizzard card.
For the Circuit at the end of the floppy, I thought about the "A357-REAL HD adapter" that allow you to use a PC drive.

[vk3heg]

CLS2086 wrote:
... or maybe the previous owner thought it was sweet and nice to add a heatsink on a such hot CPU.
Mine doesn't have one too and doesn't crash, that is the PSU the main responsible of crash on a Blizzard card.
For the Circuit at the end of the floppy, I thought about the "A357-REAL HD adapter" that allow you to use a PC drive.

I must be going blind in my old age!  :-D  :-D

On the back of the circuit board:

Amiga Technologies 1996 (At the top)
Artwork by DCE (Part way down)
318010-01 (At the bottom)

Does this give anyone more information, and does it mean I can use a standard PC floppy drive?