Amiga 3000 and DF1:?????

[skwayb]

I am trying to get my A3000 back up and running after I took it out of storage.  I had already done the Battery update back when OS3.5 came out so I don't need to worry about that.  I had the 1.76 MB floppy drive in there and I swear it was working.  Now after putting OS3.9 on it, all I get is DF1:? on the workbench.  (it was also doing this on 3.5).  I played around with it last night and can't get it to go away.  How is it suppose to be setup?
 
Does the 880k drive need to be DF0 and the 1.76mb drive DF1 ?  I have the jumper on the MB set to DF1, one drive set to DF0 and the jumper on the other drive set to DF1.  I swapped the drive positions on the cable and still DF1:?  If I set up either drive as DF0 and put the jumper on the MB to NO DF1 they work.  So either I have the wrong cable or I am setting it up in correctly.  Any ideas?

[save2600]

I am trying to get my A3000 back up and running after I took it out of storage.  I had already done the Battery update back when OS3.5 came out so I don't need to worry about that.  I had the 1.76 MB floppy drive in there and I swear it was working.  Now after putting OS3.9 on it, all I get is DF1:? on the workbench.  (it was also doing this on 3.5).  I played around with it last night and can't get it to go away.  How is it suppose to be setup?
 
Does the 880k drive need to be DF0 and the 1.76mb drive DF1 ?  I have the jumper on the MB set to DF1, one drive set to DF0 and the jumper on the other drive set to DF1.  I swapped the drive positions on the cable and still DF1:?  If I set up either drive as DF0 and put the jumper on the MB to NO DF1 they work.  So either I have the wrong cable or I am setting it up in correctly.  Any ideas?

I recently went round and round with the same exact problem. You have two drives *in* (not counting external) your system?

In my one drive system, I had to disable DF1: on the mobo (that only applies for internal use).

In your case, if you have two drives (it shouldn't matter which device is high or low density), you enable DF1: AND you have to change the jumper on the back of the drive itself. Whichever is master/slave - you get the idea. Master=DF0: Slave=DF1:

[skwayb]

That is how I have it setup.  I looked and found some old posts.  Looks like on a High Density drive on an A3000 that say the jumper on the Motherboard should be set to NODF1 with a HD drive in there.  If it was a normal 880k drive then the DF1 jumper on the Motherboard needs to be set.  I will give that a try and see what happens.

[Amiga_Nut]

I had the same problem with my A2000 I bought second hand...turned out to be the cable.

[skwayb]

If it is the cable, anyone have the pinout or picture of how to convert the PC Floppy cable to an Amiga Cable?

[skwayb]

Got it working.
 
2 problems.
 
With an HD Floppy drive on the A3000 you want it set to NO DF1 on the jumper on the Motherboard. Leave 880k set to DF0 on the jumpers and set the HD Floopy to DF1 on the jumpers.  If you use 2 880k drives, then you need to set the jumper to DF1.
 
Second problem looks like the 880k drive has short at the power connector on the back of the drive. If you wiggle it any the drive shows up as bad. Could be the drive connector or the cable. The connector is pretty loose on the board, wiggles up and down easily. Have to look at it and see if I need to solder it.