Replacement Floppy Drive with Drive Select

[crash]

Greetings,

 

Can anyone suggest a brand of 1.44meg floppy drive that still has a Drive Select jumper or solder pad? I'm trying to replace the floppy in my Falcon, and the two drives I've bought so far (NEC and Mitsumi) don't have the ability to act as Drive A.

 

Thanks!

[Rybags]

Couldn't you just adapt a PC floppy cable, ie - the part with the twist in the wiring?

[crash]

Couldn't you just adapt a PC floppy cable, ie - the part with the twist in the wiring?

 

The Falcon has a floppy cable "permanently" attached to the motherboard. I have a floppy extension cable, although it does not include the twist part, and the gender is wrong to switch the cable or connect another one.

[krupkaj]

I know older TEAC drives has the jumpers, unfortunately most new drives has not them. And what is also bad the new drives has not HD detect signal on data conector.

[GT Turbo]

On new drives, no jumpers, but if you open it, you can find two solders plot called DS0 and DS1 (Drive Select), you have just to unsold on DS1 and do a solder plot on DS0. I have done it on two drives.

 

 

GT Turbo (Jagware)

[crash]

Unfortunately, not all drives still have these solder pads. I bought two drives which didn't, then looked around at the local stores, and none of their drives had them.

 

Fortunately, one kick a** individual posted this listing, which I used to search eBay, and found a brand new black floppy drive with the necessary drive select solder pads My black Falcon Rack case is complete... Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational Falcon computer! Mu-hu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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A short list of floppys that should be compatible with Mega STE/TT/F030 (atleast if you jumper them correctly):

 

TEAC FD235HF-6573

TEAC FD235HF-4473

Y-E DATA YD-702D-6537D

Y-E DATA YD-702D-6037D

Y-E DATA YD-702B-6039B

Y-E DATA YD-702B-6037B

EPSON SMD 1340 P-031

MITSUMI D359T3 (Not sure this one do hd-detect on pin2, and most Mitsumi D359xxx drives are hardwired to do no hd-detect from factory)

SONY MPF 420-1

SONY MP-F17W-82D

SONY MP-F17W-84

SONY MP-F17W-85

PANASONIC JU-257A-294P

PANASONIC JU-257A-84P

PANASONIC JU-257A-104P

PANASONIC JU-257A-293P

PANASONIC JU-257A-083P

PANASONIC JU-257A-083PJ

PANASONIC JU-257A-103P

PANASONIC JU-257A-103PJ

PANASONIC JU-257A-081P

PANASONIC JU-257A-101P

MITSUBISHI MF-355C-58ML

MITSUBISHI MF-355C-58MF

 

EPSON SMD1040 should be usable, but doesn't output on pin 2, so you'll have to move around the wires on the floppy cable.

 

Sony MFD-17W-1. I don't have the jumpersettings for it, but it does have quite a few jumpers, which I found once I popped the shielding off. I'm quite sure that one of them controls hd-detect output.

 

in my F030 MK-X, I have a Teac FD235HF-7429 that seems to be working fine, despite the apparent lack of jumpers...

 

Epson SMD 300/340 were often used by Atari in the computers, generally it seems ppl have had success with them. Although there is no guarante everyone will work, read below.

 

Many have similar modelnames, and you'd think that, for example, all PANASONIC JU-257A-xxx is usable, unfortunately, that is not the case. So check out the drive carefully before you start. The same goes for SONY MP-F17W and Teac FD235 and the others.

[+DarkLord]

Unfortunately, not all drives still have these solder pads. I bought two drives which didn't, then looked around at the local stores, and none of their drives had them.

 

Fortunately, one kick a** individual posted this listing, which I used to search eBay, and found a brand new black floppy drive with the necessary drive select solder pads My black Falcon Rack case is complete... Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational Falcon computer! Mu-hu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

 

First, thanks for that listing. Very helpful.

 

Now, how about some pics of your "fully armed and operational Falcon computer!"?

 

Check out my sig, go to my website and look at my black Falcon. Of course, I'm only

using black until I can find something *darker*...

[crash]

Well, I lied. I took the Falcon completely apart again to make another modification, so it's not very photogenic right now, but fully operational .

 

I'll post pics as soon as I finish, but it seems that my Falcon looks a lot like yours, just not as black

 

Cheers!

[+DarkLord]

Well, I lied. I took the Falcon completely apart again to make another modification, so it's not very photogenic right now, but fully operational .

 

I'll post pics as soon as I finish, but it seems that my Falcon looks a lot like yours, just not as black

 

Cheers!

 

Heh. Great minds think alike...

 

Be looking forward to those pics!