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Mrs Beanbag · 05 December 2012, 00:11

I have an A1200 in the loft with a bust floppy drive, I tried replacing it with the drive out of a bust A500 which worked except it physically won't fit in the case :/

Found an old slimline external drive a while back, wondered if these were pin compatible on the inside. I took it apart just now, there are a couple of small chips on an interface board, I looked them up, a couple of flip flops and some Nand gates, presumably this just handles the drive select logic. So if I can get the drive out of the chassis can I connect this directly to the Amiga as DF0? Or do those chips do something else special?

I would mod the A1200 case to allow the drive's own bezel to poke out.

05 December 2012, 00:11	#1
Mrs Beanbag Glastonbridge Software Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Edinburgh/Scotland Posts: 2,243	Can I use external floppy drive as internal drive? I have an A1200 in the loft with a bust floppy drive, I tried replacing it with the drive out of a bust A500 which worked except it physically won't fit in the case :/ Found an old slimline external drive a while back, wondered if these were pin compatible on the inside. I took it apart just now, there are a couple of small chips on an interface board, I looked them up, a couple of flip flops and some Nand gates, presumably this just handles the drive select logic. So if I can get the drive out of the chassis can I connect this directly to the Amiga as DF0? Or do those chips do something else special? I would mod the A1200 case to allow the drive's own bezel to poke out.