Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · May 12
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I seem to have no spare working Amiga floppy drives around, so I just setup a Teac FD-235HF-3240 to work with the Amiga. If you have a 3XXX version of this drive, there are bunch of small jumpers: Set RY34 (Ready signal on pin 34) and DC2 (Disk change on pin 2.) Then set DS0, FG, HA, HF and NMK.

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Adrian's Digital Basement · May 12

And in case anyone wants the original settings to use it with a PC

@jboi74.bsky.social · Jun 13

I thought I would share this Scan just in case it is useful to someone: hxc2001.com/download/dat...

Peter Mulholland · May 14

Generally you can use a PC drive if you put DSKCHG which is normally on pin 34 onto pin 2. The Amiga's OS will not care about the missing DSKRDY signal, but a lot of games will. I did actually make a circuit to get around that by artificially simulating the DSKRDY signal using a timer though.

@pilosus.bsky.social · May 12

And then you have me, who has 40 Sony 131 drives in a floppy disk orchestra..

Andrea Campanella · May 13

I did that for my chackmate 1500

Jamie and a half 🐟🌒 🔭 · May 13

Nice! I have modified a few Samsung SFD-321B drives to make them into Amiga drives. That model happens to be really easy to modify. It's so much cheaper than finding one made for the Amiga!

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@ferrari2k.bsky.social · Jun 11

I wonder, my dad had an old Schneider PC-1512 with a 720k 3.5" floppy in it. I tried numerous things to get an old 1.44MB floppy to work there but it is always recognized as 360k... Might this drive work there and where do I find out more about the meaning of the jumpers? :)

GothPanda · May 12

I literally just had to debug the jumpers on one of these drives. Was never able to find the datasheet for it. Would it be too much to request a link?