Repair & Refurb Two Broken External Amiga Floppy Drives
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- I have two broken Amiga external 3.5" floppy drives and its about time I fixed them. These drives were received as part of my Amiga 4000 bundle, that proved to mainly contain broken retro kit. But that does not need to be a barrier to us, does it!
Watch and see how I take these once highly desired, and needed external drives and get them back on their (rubber) feet again. Once again chugging and reading a cover disk, like its 1991 again!
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00:00 - Intro
04:03 - Check Drive A
13:27 - Check Drive B
18:57 - The New Drives Arrive
22:52 - The Cleaned Cases
24:49 - Test Drive in Case A
29:04 - Test Drive in Case B
29:19 - Remove Soldered Power Wire
38:25 - Put New Rubber Feet On
39:36 - Drive A Repaired?
40:24 - Reassemble Drive A
42:12 - Reassemble Drive B
47:24 - Fix The Eject Button
54:15 - Conclusion
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most of those external drives are pc drives i had to set my gotek to ms1 (pc drive) to get it to work
When I tested these, I set the drives to DF1 and with the ID select switch in either position, the drives were not recognised. No life, nothing. And I had the same experience with my Amiga 4000, when I used the Samsung drive (shown in previous video). Only when I set them to DF0 did they work. So I'm not sure what the situation is with your enclosure and the Gotek.
(as was suggested in the last video comments) ( "which you didnt do again in this video " test it in xcopy ) i think these dives are only going to be good for your uses and not for most peoples uses .. but good enuff to do basic read and sometimes writes in workbench senarios ( depending which external drive your using ) the results will not be god enuff for 98% of us amiga users that require them to actually copy disk's . hopefully youll get round to doing actual x-copy testing and realise this for a future video .
Not sure 98% of Amiga users will be wanting to copy disks in XCopy. I'm pretty sure 99% of Amiga owners want to read disks? And a good number will want to write to them maybe? But I get your point.
From what I understand, the Samsung drive definitely has a Ready signal, and I connected that to 34. But that drive is only available in 25mm high models AFAIK, so its only really of use in external drives with reversed data/power connectors, or in an Amiga 3000/4000. Still, its more the overall gist I was getting at in the previous video i.e. Pin 2 goes to Disk Change, 34 goes to Ready, DS1 is changed to DS0n and if your very lucky, you an lock it to readying HD disks as DD. But milage certainly varies, these were generally NOT intended for use in an Amiga, so....
Is the "disk select switch" just a power switch?
It could be, one is labelled as 0 / 1, which could be ID 0/1 or indeed off/on. But, Id honestly expect on/off to be labelled as such. Using 0/1 for on off, is a bit to techy, even for an Amiga external drive.