Doommaster,
This will be my last reply to you ever, on any subject. Wonder why I didn't realise this before.
Why do you reply to only one point I made in my post? It had multiple things I wanted you to know, including a question that would have helped me diagnose your problem more, but you just picked one item (the one you understood?) and went with only that, dismissing the rest.
Anyway, here's a few replies to your "totally correct points that can't be disputed" (oh, they can, you're not the only person in this world who has worked with computers).
I just outlined that you might get into trouble if you try to read those DD disks on other drives than the HD mechanism you plan into installing into your Amiga.
This will not change. Maybe you will get lucky and you won't experience it. Maybe you won't think more of it but consider your disks "dodgy, not worthy of your professional computer", and try another and this disk will work -> problem solved (even though it is still there).
No matter what you say, I have STILL had those DD-HD problems in the past. What I didn't say was, that many of my friends have encountered the same anomalities with DD disks written in both a DD drive and a HD drive in turn. It's a very real problem, but you choose to insist that I'm wrong. Thanks for respecting my life experiences, pal!
Back in 1990 you probably had DD Teac drives, but you probably know best what you had (or do you, I'm beginning to doubt that).. I've had only good experiences using various DD mechanisms with Amigas. They're mostly just plug'n'play.
I've never had the plastic break in Chinon mechs myself.. Just the electronics burn and the wp sensor and disk insert sensor switches go bad. The actual mechanism has always been intact in the broken ones I've encountered.. Of course your drives might have been handled differently. A hint: insert disks shutter first with the metal grabbing disc on the rear side. :-P
You also didn't notice in my posts where I tried to help you (the part where I asked you a question)? Did I write too much and you got bored half way?
Please don't wonder why the people who are trying to help you mysteriously disappear after a few conversations with you! You don't want to be helped! It seems that even when you can't figure it out for yourself, you must tell us how much you know and be better than your helpers.. Learn a little humbleness, please! If you're the one who's needing help, please don't act like you know everything that relates to the subject but is not about it?!
I'm very impressed that you know the difference between DD and HD drives, but this doesn't tell me what's silkscreened onto your Professional Teac's PCB..
Now please tell the next person who volunteers their time and energy to you, whether you see any silkscreened or laquered text that might describe jumpers or switches that could be soldered there. That will actually carry this conversation on. If you see the text, then you already know where the jumpers are. If you don't see any text, please please tell us so someone else can help you more.
You seemed to forget the actual relevance in this thread the instant someone (me) posted something that wasn't 100% about your problem! I did discuss your problem on both posts, how come you totally missed it?
I have to give it to you, you're an excellent troll. Here I am with smoke coming out of my ears and you're probably just laughing how you ticked me off. Harumph.
Now: please only reply to the question I made a couple of times in this thread. Forget all about using DD disks in HD drives. FORGET. It is not relevant and I'm sorry I distracted your line of thought with something like that. Now focus again on how to get your Teac High Density Floppy Disk Drive Mechanism fitted into your Amiga 2000 HardDrive Professional computing machine. (hope that didn't distract you either, I'm having a hard time holding my sarcasm and general assholeness inside me).
Have a good rest of your life, hope someone else has more nerves than me..
