Reply 17380 of 27574, by psychz
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Nowadays I'm into maintaining my Amiga gear. Found six of my old joysticks, three arcade sticks and three flight-yoke type ones! The two were already fully working, I restored and cleaned the other three, will change a damaged 9pin female connector on the fourth later today. Got an external Amiga floppy adapter and used a PC drive to write new floppies, in order to test the stock Amiga drives which I (apparently correctly) suspected to have gone bad. Turns out that both the Epson SMD-400 and the Chinon A500 internal drives I had are inconsistent, even after trying to service them. Strange, given that the Chinon used to work last time I used it before packing the A500 away (several, possibly too many years ago!), yet a cleanup-recap-lubrication didn't revive it 🙁 Still haven't tested my A1200's TEAC drive, but from what I recall it was dying as well, or just misaligned - will have to repair or replace. The Epson did get a bit better after a thorough cleaning and a recap, as it wouldn't read anything initially, still it gets read errors where it shouldn't. Modified a PC Alps DF354H911C for internal Amiga use (DC, RY, DS0, HD switch signals) and it seems to perform pretty decently and silently, even with ready signal-sensitive demos such as Arte [SNT]. Now to see how it will fit inside the A500rev5, will have to do something about the eject button; .stl files are available on the Internet for eject buttons which fit this particular drive but I don't have a 3D printer! Apparently they also sell such buttons at amigastore etc, but I guess I'm really impatient 😜 Finally, while searching for kit in the storage, I found another Gotek (the original in the classic black 3.5" plastic case) which I got a couple of years ago for PC use, but never bothered to unpack and test it. Soldered a pin header and serial-flashed it with FlashFloppy, to use as DF1: with the external adapter, as an easy way to get ADFs on real disks with X-Copy.
wrote:Its not like components found in trash after 20 years in rain dont still work flawlessly.
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