[Coco] Drive Motors

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Thanks Gene,
I was wondering why, when it seemed too simple.
I will admit, whenever I am restoring a big box Amiga or a 1200/600. The first thing I do it ditch the old drive and go to AmigaKit and get a new (modded PC) floppy drive from them along with the other needed parts. On an A2000, they are off aesthetically, being white and a bit smaller than the original Chinon FB 354 Drives, but I got to the point where it was always pulling my hair out trying to install WorkBench and the floppy drive would get through 2 or 3 disks then fail. I don't even test them anymore, just replace. Amigakit has made them cheap enough that it's a no brainer for at least installing WorkBench. I of course, install "No Click" once WorkBench is up, the click was enough to drive people insane.
-Glen
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>Unfortunately, the huge majority of the miggy drives out there were 
>destroyed by the miggy's and their penchant for tickling the drive back to 
>track 0 every 2 or 3 seconds, the infamous click you heard as long as it 
>was running unless you had downloaded and installed a 'no-click' patch. 
>That constant tickle wore out both the piece of music wire used for the 
>head carriage nut, and the phospher bronze spring on the other side of the 
>screw that furnished the spring to hold the music wire into the spiral 
>groove on the screw. Compounded by the grease used being the worst dust 
>magnet ever, and turning into a very hard wax in about a year, I became 
>very intimately familiar with the miggies floppy drive, 880 and 1720k back 
>when we had about 6 of them at the tv station. 

>One of the things left out of the ones for the miggies was an index pulse 
>phto-diode and the led that drove it, since the amiga used a full track 
>read/write, that could run totally unsynchronized with the disks rotation, 
>t needed no index pulse, and os9 cannot format a disk without it. 

>Cheers, Gene