Hi everybody,
I am facing a bit weird issue with one of my floppy drives. I restored few Amiga drives lately with success, but this one is not working at a 100% level.
It is a Panasonic JU-253-033P, found in many A500s. I did the following to the drive:
- Full dust removal and heads cleaning with isopropyl alcohol.
- Apply new grease on the heads motor axis
- Replace the 2 10uF SMD capacitors
- Align heads
Workbench disks and other Amiga DOS formatted disks will read/write flawlessly, not a single hiccup of the drive.
But when trying NDOS games disks, it will "freeze" at the same point while reading (disk keep spinning, drive led stays on until I do a reset, and a soft reset will bring a yellow screen)
Some games will "seem" to load but end to a totally garbled screen
Tried another JU-253-033P in the same Amiga : it works
Tried the weird JU-253-033P in another Amiga : it does not work
Does anybody have an idea of the cause of this? Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
I am facing a bit weird issue with one of my floppy drives. I restored few Amiga drives lately with success, but this one is not working at a 100% level.
It is a Panasonic JU-253-033P, found in many A500s. I did the following to the drive:
- Full dust removal and heads cleaning with isopropyl alcohol.
- Apply new grease on the heads motor axis
- Replace the 2 10uF SMD capacitors
- Align heads
Workbench disks and other Amiga DOS formatted disks will read/write flawlessly, not a single hiccup of the drive.
But when trying NDOS games disks, it will "freeze" at the same point while reading (disk keep spinning, drive led stays on until I do a reset, and a soft reset will bring a yellow screen)
Some games will "seem" to load but end to a totally garbled screen
Tried another JU-253-033P in the same Amiga : it works
Tried the weird JU-253-033P in another Amiga : it does not work
Does anybody have an idea of the cause of this? Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Thanks