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From: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fixing a 3.5" drive
Keywords: 3.5 floppy drive
Message-ID: <9725@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 89 03:31:46 GMT
References: <206@tlvx.UUCP>
Sender: Fred Gilham <gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham)
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In article <206@tlvx.UUCP> sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:

>       Is there something I need to know (perhaps jumper
>settings needed, such as the DC/RDY jumper)?  Is this going to work?  (Unless
>someone says, "No way!" I'm goin' for it as soon as I get the 8520.)
>

I think you are out of luck.  My understanding is that a seperate
interface chip or (or chips) is needed to make this work.  I actually
tried it.  I tried every combination of jumpers and even some trace
bridging on several different drives.  The drives would read and write
all right, but they wouldn't notice when the disk was changed.

I ended up buying a drive for an a2000 and leaving off the front of my
external drive.  That seems to work fine.
-Fred Gilham