02 September 2010, 12:09 | #81 |
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Well I made the mods.
But when I plug the Sony drive in, the drive light is permanently lit on the Amiga, the drive doesn't make a polling sound like the old drive and the drive activity light on the front of the drive is permanently lit. Any suggestions? I checked all the changes with a multimeter, to make sure I hadn't created any unintended shorts or breaks around the areas that changes were made. Are the power connections the same as the original drives? eg. the original power connector can be plugged in to the new drive, the same way around as the old drive?? |
02 September 2010, 13:02 | #82 | |
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There's an arrow on the case for Pin1 (red wire). |
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02 September 2010, 13:24 | #83 |
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FOL, yes you are right the connector on the Sony is the other way up.
Still not there yet, now the Amiga drive light comes on for a short time then goes out. I think that's correct, but the drive isn't being polled and when a disc is inserted nothing happens. A problem with the RDY signal?? |
02 September 2010, 14:05 | #84 |
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Oh bollocks.
I forgot to do the zero ohm resistor bit! Hopefully will be back with better news later. |
02 September 2010, 15:51 | #85 |
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Cool, yep.
The link/0 ohm resister move fixed it. I have a working A500 Amiga now. |
02 September 2010, 18:10 | #86 |
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Next job fitting the Sony drive into an A500...
What are peoples prefered methods?? 1. Bringing the drive forward, raised using some sort of custom mounting and cutting the disc eject button to fit the existing hole in the case? or 2. Cutting the case hole bigger, fit the drive slightly raised using existing mounting holes, plus extending the Sony eject button with glued on plastic? |
02 September 2010, 21:01 | #87 |
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If you want to make the best possible job of this and you're reasonably skilled and patient, I would recommend that you leave the Sony drive's fascia on and fit the drive into your A500 to look much the same as an Archimedes A3000.
(Click the thumbnail for a bigger picture.) Though I must admit I have no knowledge of exactly how to position the drive to get such a good fit. |
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That's a good point. It would mean other drives could fit in later, without any further changes, like in a PC.
Although the fascia is black. |
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That shouldn't matter, as it would be a simple matter to change it. That A3000 in the picture is mine. I will try to get a couple of close-up pictures of the drive bay area uploaded for you tomorrow if you're interested. Last edited by prowler; 04 September 2010 at 00:44. Reason: Typo |
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03 September 2010, 11:01 | #90 |
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I think it would be possible to cutaway an area.
The top of the disc insertion slot in the case, aligns with the top of the drive, once the drive is lifted a bit (I have placed 4 washers between the existing spacers and the drive). The right side of the drive lines up with the right side of the ejector button slot. So it should be possible to make a cut out. I have a history of plastic model kit building for my sins, so I'm used to hacking away at plastic and getting things to fit. |
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I'm looking forward to see the result of your endeavours. I reckon I'll be tempted to convert one of my A500s to take a big box Amiga floppy drive if you're successful. |
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18 November 2010, 11:13 | #92 |
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The cheap floppy's from PC World in the unbranded white boxes are usually a Sony MPF920 Z/121. Well, most of mine have always been anyway.
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03 March 2011, 11:39 | #93 |
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hi sorry to drag up an oldish thread, but i have 2 floppy drives here both quite old and was wondering if anybody knows how to mod them for my a500+
they are an EPSON SMD-1300 dated 10/04/1995 and an ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD. DF354H071C which i think came out of a tiny pc around 2000 hope one of these is suitable to be modified cheers ps the epson seems to have a small blue switch or jumper near the drive led, would it harm my amiga if i try these drives as is first? |
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insert more photo please
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On the info on this thread..and to keep things easy for me!
I've just grabbed a Sony from fleabay for £1.24. Its marked as a MPF920 Z/121 , but has a different board much the same as a /161 . But all modded as the 161 and is working perfectly.. I did forget to do the HD/DD link .. but it still works ok without it.. only DD though . C. |
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Hi, I modded Sony MPF 920 REV Z/131 So far so good, now I see from the workbench;
DF1 :???? DF2 :???? DF3 :???? I have done something wrong? can be solved? |
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Bizarre, never seen that message with any of the Sony 131's i done, check the 34 pin cable good and recheck the wiring, other that that i cant suggest anything else |
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Looks like RDY is being pulled low all the time by your drive.
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You will need to discover why your modification is causing a short between Pin34 (/RDY) on the floppy disk drive connector and ground (0V). http://pinouts.ru/Storage/InternalDisk_pinout.shtml Check that there are no shorts caused by solder splashes, etc. on the disk drive pcb. |
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