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Adrian's Digital Basement
@adriansdigitalbasement.com

I seem to have no spare working Amiga floppy drives around, so I just setup a Teac FD-235HF-3240 to work with the Amiga. If you have a 3XXX version of this drive, there are bunch of small jumpers: Set RY34 (Ready signal on pin 34) and DC2 (Disk change on pin 2.) Then set DS0, FG, HA, HF and NMK.

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Peter Mulholland
@jaycee1980.bsky.social

Generally you can use a PC drive if you put DSKCHG which is normally on pin 34 onto pin 2. The Amiga's OS will not care about the missing DSKRDY signal, but a lot of games will. I did actually make a circuit to get around that by artificially simulating the DSKRDY signal using a timer though.

pilosus.bsky.social
@pilosus.bsky.social

(for context, I did not know they were moddable to be Amiga compatible at the time, but they were widely available and had a louder stepping sound than most other drives I tried. For a floppy disk drive orchestra that's really what's all about, because most drives are really quite quiet.)

ferrari2k.bsky.social
@ferrari2k.bsky.social

I wonder, my dad had an old Schneider PC-1512 with a 720k 3.5" floppy in it. I tried numerous things to get an old 1.44MB floppy to work there but it is always recognized as 360k... Might this drive work there and where do I find out more about the meaning of the jumpers? :)

GothPanda
@gothpanda.dev

I literally just had to debug the jumpers on one of these drives. Was never able to find the datasheet for it. Would it be too much to request a link?