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From: blakec@pi3.local (Carl D. Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Floppy interface
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Date: 1 Oct 90 16:55:12 GMT
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>        No, not all IBM 3.5" drives will work. The stock A500 uses a Chinon
>drive. Mine was replace with a Panasonic no problem. I hear the Toshiba drives
>have been made to work and a simple circuit will allow you to use most any
>3.5" drive.

According to the information I have received, the drives used in the A500 and
the A2000 is the Chinon FZ354.  I just recently decided to replace the
external and internal drives in my A1000 (because of an ongoing problem
with dying floppy disks) and purchased a Chinon FZ354 through mail order
(actually it was the FZ354I which is the FZ354 with a 5 1/4" bracket - I
removed the bracket).  It seems to work just fine.  However, I had to
cut a hole in the face plate of my A1000 to get it to fit.  I just
did this over the weekend so we'll see if this solves my dying floppy
disk problem.

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