03 October 2004, 17:16 | #1 |
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Bad Floppy Drive???
Hi
I have an A1200 with internal HDD and have noticed recently that the Floppy Drive DF0 makes a few clunking sounds when there is no disk in it and the DF0??? appears on the workbench screen. I loaded up a few games from floppy and they all booted 100% with no problems. The drive clunks also when i have booted workbench from Floppy and the drive is empty. This behaviour is erratic and sometimes disappears after several boots.I often leave the Amiga off for months at a time so could it be the drive behaving like this because it hasn't been used for a while or is it signs of a worn out/failing drive? any help would be greatly appreciated thanks |
03 October 2004, 17:24 | #2 |
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Are you sure it's not the normal disk checking *click* sound? Amigas do that when there are no disks in the drive and is normal. Even if it is not a normal click, don't open your drive unless it's not working, you can misalign or completely kill it.
From http://de.aminet.net you can search for utilities that disable that normal disk checking sound, but only under workbench. |
03 October 2004, 18:05 | #3 |
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I have had the machine for nearly 9 yrs and have always used a noclick command in the startup sequence script.Besides that i get the same probs when i boot workbench from floppy disc ie the df0??? icon appearing when i remove the floppy disk from the drive.
At least the drive still loads all disks when i boot from them (up till now so far) Just wondered if the drive was on its way out - they are damn expensive to purchase now,buying a second hand amiga from ebay is often cheaper |
03 October 2004, 18:10 | #4 |
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Check the little pins in front of the drive, maybe the disk recognition pin is stuck, so it allways thinks a disk is inserted, even if you get it out of the drive
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03 October 2004, 18:16 | #5 |
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Thanks - i'll give that a try
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04 October 2004, 10:19 | #6 |
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Retroman -
Would those pins be the two black plastic ones on the left hand side of the front of the drive? thanks |
04 October 2004, 12:11 | #7 |
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Thanks - You were 100% correct,the little plastic sensor pin was a little sticky,everything is now working properly again.
Thanks for your great help |
04 October 2004, 20:10 | #8 |
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No Problem I allready had about 30 or 40 of those drives, it´s a very common problem
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