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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: replacement of 3.5 drives
Summary: Using generic drives works fine
Message-ID: <1246@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 18:40:50 GMT
References: <751@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <751@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
>In Msg-ID: <22842@gryphon.COM>, collins@pnet02.gryphon.com
>(Steve Collins) writes:
>| A local electronics store is selling 3.5 IBM compatible floppy
>| drives (cheap!) that seem to have the same connectors as the Amiga
>| internal drive. What are the chances that this drive will work in an
>| Amiga?
>
>Steve,
>   Hello. You can use a generic 3.5" drive with the addition of a
> small circuit to generate the Drive ID at power up. 

The circuit you mention is only required if you want to hook the drive up
as an EXTERNAL floppy. 

Me and a friend just installed a 720K MSDOS compatible floppy in his 2000 as
DF1: internal drive. The only things we had to do was set a Jumper on the
mother board and the drive select on the floppy drive. It works great.

I forget what the number was on the mother board jumper, but it is noted in the
back of the Amiga 2000 manual. It's located in the center of the board just to
the left of the frame that holds the drives. 

I would recommend getting 720K MSDOS drives and not the 1.44M ones. 

The drive we installed was a panasonic brand.

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