| From: | tesla |
| Date: | 10 May 2000 at 09:26:11 |
| Subject: | Re: Hi-density Floppy |
John, great answer. But, My Chinon has no led, just a switch. And, it's not
that anyways, because the drive is listed by 3.5 as a 880, not a 1.76. My
old 2.04 listed it as a 1.76.
Thanks,
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Burger" <jsburger@xmission.com>
To: "tesla" <amigaOS3_5@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [amigaOS3_5] Hi-density Floppy
> On or about 08-May-00 18:05:30 tesla typed the following words
> about "[amigaOS3_5] Hi-density Floppy". My reply is thus...
>
> Hi tesla,
>
>
> > Hi;
> > I have been having a continuing problem with my A 3000 Tower. It has a
> > standard floppy, (880K) and a Hi density floppy, (1.76.)
>
> > The problem is getting the system to recognize the hi density floppy as
a
> > 1.76. It works fine as a 880k, but I would like to occasionally use it
in
> > the hi density mode. Since I've checked just about everything that could
> > go wrong electrically, (including bad connections, bad ribbon cable,
> > changing floppy connection order, etc, I think it must be that 3.5 is
not
> > configured correctly. Any thought's on where to check it?
>
> Assuming that it used to work correctly here is the problem I had. The hi
> density disks have a hole in the corner of the disk opposite the
read/write
> hole. That hole is there for an LED light to shine through which is the
> detection method to tell if the disk is hi density. Over the years my
drive
> accumulated enough dust on the LED so that it didn't activate the hi
> density sensor. Try blowing the dust from the front right corner of the
> drive. That fixed in intermittent problem for me.
>
>
> John
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