A500 replacement FDD

[Daniele]

Hello guys,

I'd like to know if what happened to me happened to anybody of us or may I have an explication for this.
This is 2nd time I buy replacement for A500 internal
Floppy Disc Drivers to a well known Amiga Dealer in
Europe but when I replace the broken original FDD with
this brand new ones I can only run 5% of my floppies.
May anybody give me an explication about that since the
dealer do not answers to my email?

Thank U Very Much!

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[orange]

Probably FDD 'heads' are misaligned, there is software on aminet to 'fine tune' them; but its pretty difficult since it needs to be done with high precision. Its doable, just needs patience/time. Have you tried repairing/cleaning the FDD that wrote floppies?

[Homer]

Hi Daniele,
Can you tell us if the floppies that don't work are ones that  you have written with the old drive ? Is there something logical that is different with the disks that don't work ? Do games work but not disks you write on ??

[orange]

BTW, are you the Daniele Gratteri from comp.sys.amiga.hardware?

[Daniele]

Hi homer,


I'll tell u, the floppy are brand new bcoz I have just adf2disk it from my A1200 with cd rom to floppy and put the games in the A500. So what can I do?

Thanks

[orange]

then replace A1200 FDD

[Daniele]

Hello guys,

I'd like to know if what happened to me happened to anybody of us or may I have an explication for this.
This is 2nd time I buy replacement for A500 internal
Floppy Disc Drivers to a well known Amiga Dealer in
Europe but when I replace the broken original FDD with
this brand new ones I can only run 5% of my floppies.
The floppy disc I used are brand news bcoz I have just
adf2disk it from my A1200 with cd rom to floppy and
put the games in the A500. So what can I do?

May anybody give me an explication about that since the
dealer do not answers to my email?

Thank U Very Much!

[melange]

If the floppy disks you are using are High Density (You said they were new) then, it's possible that the new drive in the A500 is a High Density drive and can't read the disks because they are written in Double Density.
Put tape over the little window, to force the drive to read it as Double Density.

In short have a good look at the floppy disks that work and compare them with the disks that don't.  If the disks that work, do not have the little window, then that's the problem.
Tape up the window on the disks that don't work.

[Tomas]

What exactly happens when you try to boot these non working floppies?

[Daniele]

the discs are brand new and 2D DD from AmigaKit

and preformatted for AmigA

any help?

[Daniele]

replaced the A1200 with a A500 vesalia floppy disc drivers, and I use this to write adf. with adf2disc, then when I put this floppy in my A500 with another vesalia disc drive it would be a miracle if 1/10 of the floppy would really works!!!!



Any Help PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

[orange]

sorry it didn't work;
do you have X-Copy or D-Copy? you can use them to check if diskettes contain readable tracks. (try making copies with them)
maybe A500 has damaged CIA or something..   :-?

[Daniele]

Sure I got X-Copy and everything is OK with it, No red 0 only green ones!

thx!

[TjLaZer]

Try an original disk (a couple prefereably) and see if it boots, if it does not your drive is messed up.

[orange]

AFAIK, if you get all green 0 with x-copy then everything is fine.
It can only be compatibility then, what kickstart do you have in A500? How much memory, is it slowfast, what games are you trying?