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Offline nahoo7Topic starter

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a1200 floppy drive spinning?
« on: September 20, 2005, 09:21:25 AM »
hi all, my a1200hd40 i bought off ebay turned up today.I am very happy with it as it has an accelerator card and extra 4 mb of ram for $108.00 au so I think I did very well .The only fault is that when I put a disk in df0 the drive keeps spinning, and it doesnt read the disk.Df0???? shows up on the screen , does it need a clean or can I replace it with an a500 internal floppy as I have a few of these thanks.
 

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Re: a1200 floppy drive spinning?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2005, 10:54:36 AM »
Check if the floppy drive ribbon cable is still correctly in place. Cleaning the drive wouldn't hurt either, could be a pile of dust somewhere in the dark.

Use a can of compressed air to blow out the dust, and run a cleaning disk afterwards, maybe even run it a couple of times.
 

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Re: a1200 floppy drive spinning?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2005, 11:15:37 AM »
okay I will that a go thanks for your reply.