I have just modified a PC drive for use in the amiga... but how do I test everything is working as it should?
I currently have 1 floppy disk... but I could write an ADF to it - I just need to know what to use for testing.
Thanks!
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I have just modified a PC drive for use in the amiga... but how do I test everything is working as it should?
I currently have 1 floppy disk... but I could write an ADF to it - I just need to know what to use for testing.
Thanks!
you just need to
full format
write with varify
then read from cold
if all ok without errors you should be fine
what drive you moded
Isnt that just testing it writes OK though?
I am more concerned about the trackloader thing... (I dont know much about it, hence asking!)
it is also reading
have you any origional games to try
No, not yet.
I only got workbench installed last night.
I have a disk that come with my PCMCIA transfer thing, which boots into workbench fine.
if it reads and writes you should be fine mate
if you can pop over after 6.30 i can give you some disks
Not back at work until Thursday.
Got another 3 days of messing about while the missus is away with the boy :)
But the drives in the Escom amigas read/write ok, but they still have incompatibility's - this is what I want to test.
no worries
other stuff waiting here for you
Ill pop over when I am back at work :)
@Bad_Ad84
A proper PC-to-Amiga drive conversion should restore the Disk Ready signal, so you should be fine with trackloaders that rely on it (especially if Disk Ready is clearly mentioned in the conversion guide you used :)).
That signal was the Escom compatibility issue.
The Amiga OS doesn't rely on it to know when the motor is rotating at proper speed, rather it waits for 500 milliseconds after Motor_Start as that's a guaranteed motor startup time. Some loaders take the 500 ms approach, too, and work fine. The rest won't.
The hardware manual doesn't seem to favour a specific approach.