Hi Anders! ;-) On 2011-05-02, at 23:33, Anders Carlsson wrote: > Scott wrote: > >> Also, the disk drive continually runs or clicks > > You should be aware that Amiga floppy drives tend to be the first item > to break. There are a lot of Amigas out there which work except for the > built-in floppy drive. The mechanism is the same Chinon F?-354 type as > found in e.g. Atari ST and some other computers. There were others too. From Panasonic, Teac, Matsushita... They need to be jumpered to be drive 0 (react to DS0 signal) and appropriate RDY/CHG lines. > Supposedly the way the > Amiga accesses the floppy drive would shorten its life. I don't think it is the way it's been accessed. When running a repair workshop back in the days I had those discussions all too often. Customers compared their 2/386 floppy drives (where all of them had harddrive inside) used once in a blue moon to install some "serious" software on the HDD to the Amiga floppies used for _every_ boot done by their children with diskettes bearing remnants of "everything", starting from pieces of chocolate cake, thriugh pets' fur up to unidentifiable substances. My opinion is that the increased wear due to lack of harddrive and games that would run of it plus the statistical difference in handling of the media by the end users is what causes the apparent difference in failure rates. > The fact that the drive reads for a few seconds then fails tells me That the machine is most probably fully working except the diskette or the drive. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2011-05-04 15:00:13
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