RE: Amiga 500

Thanks SD and Ray, 

I plan on cleaning the drive as you, Ray, suggested and then just wait till
I get a know Good Boot disk. Localh is going to dig out his 1000 and hook me
up with a good boot disk. Woot, I can't wait.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de [mailto:owner-cbm-
> hackers@musoftware.de] On Behalf Of raycomp
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:03 AM
> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
> Subject: Re: Amiga 500
> 
> The mechanical or electrical failure of the NEC mechs in the 1000s
> was well known.  After that, detritus is more likely - thing that I
> saw killing drives most was the diskette metal closure would fail,
> catching the r/w head and ripping the heads from the metal foil
> mounting.
> --Ray
> On May 4, 2011, at 9:22 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> 
> > 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!
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