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Some of the Chinon FZ-357 disk drives already have a trace connecting the J2 pads. What I would like to know is what is the difference between the FB-354 and the FZ-357? They both look the same. I think that the FB-354 is an FZ-357 with the mod and jumpers already set for the Amiga computer. Do any of you guys know how to set up these drives to work on the Atari 1040ST computer?
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- the FB-354 (at least the ones I saw) is 1.6" high - to fit to the A2000 case - , while most PC 3.5" FDDs that are 1" high; - the FB-354 is *designed* to be a DD drive, as it cannot distinguish between 720K and 1.44M floppy disks. If you push the front slit cover in, you'll see that there is only one microswitch in it, on the right side (which is the write protection sensor), while PC 3.5" FDDs also have a microswitch on the left side (to detect the lack of hole on 720K floppy disks). Moreover, the early series of Chinon FZ-357 drives have a PCB which can be hacked to make an Amiga 1760KB HD disk drive! I have an old Hungarian magazine article about this hack - I'll translate it and present it here if anyone is interested ;-) |
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here: http://www.inf.mit.bme.hu/private/fz357/ It is not a very easy task - it includes some rather delicate soldering work and the building of a small electronic circuit -, but the result is a fully working Amiga high density floppy drive unit, virtually equivalent with the original Commodore one. It practically means that PC <-> Amiga file transfers can be made with standard 1.44MB PC-formatted floppy disks. Naturally it remains compatible with 880K Amiga floppy disks as well. |
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Thanks for that web page a_petri, very very usefull (copied to my HD already ) I'l have to check out the aminet file as well.
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Overdock I did the mod and it works! You make a type to its MM not MD to jumper!
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I mean you can buy a real Sony half-speed mechanism for less than $250 from an Amiga retailer. C'mon. |
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What a THIEF!
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You can find a working drive from an a500 free from the junkyard. I can easily find an amiga drive for about 1$ here from the junk market here. There's really no point defending the 250$ price. Get 250 drives, some will be teac, if it's THAT important
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By the way, your reputation speaks for itself. I'm in no need of namecalling. |
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Just a necro bump as I did one Chinon FZ-357 drive last night.
If you have the Japan model you need to jumper J2 AND J18. Leave J20 alone. Works great! Malaysia models just need J2 jumpered. |
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Does/did this work with HD disks? (effectivly turning it into an amiga hd floppy drive) |
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That is indeed the allure of the FZ-357.. With those modifications it becomes an FZ-357A :-)
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