Can 1010 floppy drive be used as replacement Amiga 1000 internal floppy drive?

[barney]

Is it possible to take the drive out of the commodore 1010 casing and use that as a replacement to the internal Amiga 1000 drive?  I ask this because I have a good working Amiga 1000 with a dead floppy drive.  Thanks.

[amiga1084]

Hello There,

Yes you can, as I had to do the same thing to my Amiga 1000. The floppy drive is Matsu****a drive.

Thanks in advance,
Merv Stent

[kedawa]

That's a dirty word, apparently.

[danbeaver]

Yep, been there, done that. Screw-for-screw

Or is that dirty too?

[motrucker]

It works. I've used 1010 units in A1000s several times.

[desiv]

I've done that as well, but it's not always exactly the same.
While the drive fit fine in mine.  Eject button lined up, etc...  All great.
But, the floppy cable plugged in at a slightly different place on the drive.
No biggie, except when I did that, my Insider II 1.5M RAM card no longer fit.
It would hit the floppy cable...

I eventually moved to a tomthul 4M RAM board, and that fits.

desiv

[kedawa]

Just curious.
Would it be possible to throw a PC floppy drive in a 1010/1011 shell and use it for crossdos or whatever to read PC flavoured disks?

[desiv]

Would it be possible to throw a PC floppy drive in a 1010/1011 shell and use it for crossdos or whatever to read PC flavoured disks?

If you're going to use crossdos, then you don't need a PC floppy drive.
The 1010/1011 will work.
In order to use a PC floppy, you'd have to mod it to work with an Amiga.

desiv

[kedawa]

If you're going to use crossdos, then you don't need a PC floppy drive.
The 1010/1011 will work.
In order to use a PC floppy, you'd have to mod it to work with an Amiga.

desiv

Oh yeah, I know the stock drive will read PC disks, I was just curious if there was some way to use an unmodified PC floppy drive to do the same thing, since Amiga floppy drives are getting harder to find/make.  I know it won't read Amiga floppies.

[desiv]

I was just curious if there was some way to use an unmodified PC floppy drive to do the same thing, since Amiga floppy drives are getting harder to find/make.  I know it won't read Amiga floppies.

Probably.
What you miss with the unmodified drive is the ready / disk change type signals.
That causes problems with sensing disks being ejected/changed and with some copy protection.
But it would probably work for just using crossdos.
(And basic Amiga access also)
You might have to use the "diskchange df1:" command to get it to recognize a new disk...

desiv

[TjLaZer]

There are threads over on EAB and Amibay on how to mod a PC drive to work on the Amiga.  Ones that work well are Chinon FZ-357.