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From: anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent James Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Adding a second internal floppy
Summary: Troubles adding a second internal floppy disk drive to an Amiga 2000
Keywords: adding second internal floppy disk drive amiga 2000
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Date: 22 Apr 91 10:29:25 GMT
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I recently purchased an external Amiga 2.5" floppy drive real cheap used with hopes
that I could easily plop it into the second 3.5" bay of my Amiga 2000...

The drive within the "external-style" disk drive box was a Chinon built slightly
different than the existing internal Chinon but none-the-less it mounted flawlessly
to the empty drive plate...

After plugging in the power connector and ribbon cable, I powered up to find that
the newly installed drive was very confused.  It's LED light never turns off and
the drive maintains a constant slowly repeating "chug" sound as if it's trying
to do something???

When installing drives in an IBM drive a while back, I remember having to do things
like add resistor packs or change a few jumpers in order to configure the drive
as the end of the internal drive "chain".  Unfortunately, I have no instructions
to this effect on the Amiga... I can see a set of jumpers on the existing internal
Chinon right next to the ribbon cable header and there are also some jumpers within
the newly insterted Chinon.

My question:

Does anyone out there know exactly what it takes to make a newly installed (second)
internal floppy disk drive happy to be there??? (Dave H. are you there :)

-Beej