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Omolungo · 23 November 2019, 11:40

Hi everyone, here I am with a new issue.

The drive is as the topic says, a TEAC FD-235F drive originally mounted in a Commodore A500 rev. 5.

When I power on the Amiga the disk drive immediately spin trying to read the floppy disk, also if any disk is inserted: the heads just give two "reading attempts" if you know what i mean, then stop to spin.

If I power on the Amiga with a floppy disk inserted the drive starts immediately to read the disk, correctly and fine, but if I have to change a disk the problem come back since if I'm not fast in changing the disk, after a couple of reading attempts it stops again to read.

It is normal, but the problem I think should be in the sensor for the presence of a disk, which is always active even if a disk is not inserted.

I tried the disk drive in different Amiga 500 motherboards but the issue is always the same, so the problem is on the disk drive itself.

What do you suggest to do?

23 November 2019, 11:40	#1
Omolungo Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livorno, Italy Posts: 398	TEAC FD-235F immediately try to read disks also if it's empty Hi everyone, here I am with a new issue. The drive is as the topic says, a TEAC FD-235F drive originally mounted in a Commodore A500 rev. 5. When I power on the Amiga the disk drive immediately spin trying to read the floppy disk, also if any disk is inserted: the heads just give two "reading attempts" if you know what i mean, then stop to spin. If I power on the Amiga with a floppy disk inserted the drive starts immediately to read the disk, correctly and fine, but if I have to change a disk the problem come back since if I'm not fast in changing the disk, after a couple of reading attempts it stops again to read. It is normal, but the problem I think should be in the sensor for the presence of a disk, which is always active even if a disk is not inserted. I tried the disk drive in different Amiga 500 motherboards but the issue is always the same, so the problem is on the disk drive itself. What do you suggest to do?