Hello everyone!
Just wanted to see if anyone could give me some technical information on how to track down the problem I recently got with one of my A1200s floppy disk drives.
The drive is as the topic says, a TEAC FD-235F drive originally mounted in a Commodore-version of the A1200.
Yesterday I mounted the Indivision AGA MKII to this machine and everything seemed fine. The machine boots from the CF-card perfectly and the flickerfixes does what it's supposed to do.
But the floppy drive suddenly won't read any disks anymore.
I had to remove the floppydrive to route the cable from the Indivision under the drive and out through the expansion-door near the mouse-port.
When I reassembled everything and mounted the floppydrive again I put the drive into place and mounted it with ONE screw (the one located near the accelerator trapdoor slot).
I tried to put in a disk, and it seemed to struggle spinning the disks, so I powered down the machine immidiately and removed the drive again.
Removed the screw and started the machine again. Now the disk is spinning fine. I can hear that everything clicks into place when the disk is inserted (and I can see it when the cover is off).
When there is no disk inside I can see and hear the head moving forward and backward these steps searching for a disk.
When I insert a disk the disk spins for a while while the heads just give these three "reading attempts" if you know what i mean. The same noice as if the disk was empty, and workbench gives me DF0:???? as long as the disk stays inserted.
Could I have damaged something when I tried to mount it? I really can't see what could have damaged it so badly that it should not be able to read any disks anymore, and everything else in the drive seems to work just fine.
Could the heads have been damaged or something during this?
I thought I was carefull when was inserting the screw temporarly, but probaly not carefull enough....
Of course I could just go on eBay and buy a new one, but that wouldn't be any fun, would it?
