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- From: tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Fix for A1200 floppy problem
- Date: 10 Jan 96 22:28:07 CET
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- Michael van Elst on 10 Jan 96 15:47:32 wrote
- a message about <Re: Fix for A1200 floppy problem>:
-
- MvE> >found that the RDY signal is missed (yuck!! it's a nasty
- MvE> >PeeCee floppy!! aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!! 8^O
-
- MvE> It is a PC floppy. There are no such things as Amiga floppies
- MvE> anymore.
-
- But Amiga flopies are simply floppies that supply DC and RDY
- signal simultaneously on different pins. I think it's not
- that strange (some PC drives do it, but not the ones used by
- AT).
-
- MvE> >Well, all that is needed is a *very simple* hardware hack to
- MvE> >'create' a suitable RDY signal for the old soft (a wire
- MvE> >between pin 10 of internal floppy connector and pin 1 of
- MvE> >external floppy connector).
-
- MvE> Unfortunately this does not work perfect.
-
- For a really perfect fix some more components have to be
- used (several NOR gates, a condenser and some more), but I
- needed an easy and fast fix, as I had little time to do it
- (not me, but the owner of the A1200 being fixed).
-
- Right now, two A1200 has been tested, by the owners, and
- they said to me that they hadn't found no problem at all.
-
- For them it's much better than saying "oh! it's just bad
- soft! Forget it and use only the soft that comes with the
- machine until the developers begin to support PC floppies."
-
- It's a really bad image for the Amiga, and it's what dealers
- are doing right now... :-\
- _
- _ //
- \X/ Megs of greets 8^)
-