Following on from a Sony drive I had converted for Amiga use I picked up another drive in a box of PC parts very cheaply, namely the Mitsumi D359M3. I obtained instructions from here
http://www.pitsch.de/stuff/amiga/a1korg_01.pdf
All well and good but I have no inclination of what it says being as its in German and putting it into google translate just mangled the text :/
The original photograph wasnt exactly clear as to what was going on but managed to muddle through with a little trial and error thrown in
So, firstly I put a solder link at the connection situated at DEN 2....
Next a link was placed between pin 34 and the right hand pad at DEN 3, The track which leads from pin 34 to the IC should then be severed.
(This was where I got confused with the instructions as the number 2 and 34 are marked on the board, but are for the bottom row and not the top as indicated by the photograph supplied).
The next part is where the mangled instruction threw me a little and could quite figure out what was going on......
Firstly from pin 12 cut the track leading from it, then following the track past a set of pads it takes a turn to the left, in that area scrape the coating from it to reveal the copper and add a liberal dab of flux paste, next solder a wire from pin 10 to the strip of bare copper, and thats it.
Here is a pic of the completed drive....
I tested the drive by booting from it, formating a disk in it then do a diskcopy of Workbench then boot from it.
Disk changed worked properly, one issue I did appear to have was once the Workbench disk was copied from DF1 a copy_of_workbench didnt appear on the desktop, but everything else went ok and I booted successfully from the modified drive. I also tried a couple of games without any issues.
http://www.pitsch.de/stuff/amiga/a1korg_01.pdf
All well and good but I have no inclination of what it says being as its in German and putting it into google translate just mangled the text :/
The original photograph wasnt exactly clear as to what was going on but managed to muddle through with a little trial and error thrown in
So, firstly I put a solder link at the connection situated at DEN 2....
Next a link was placed between pin 34 and the right hand pad at DEN 3, The track which leads from pin 34 to the IC should then be severed.
(This was where I got confused with the instructions as the number 2 and 34 are marked on the board, but are for the bottom row and not the top as indicated by the photograph supplied).
The next part is where the mangled instruction threw me a little and could quite figure out what was going on......
Firstly from pin 12 cut the track leading from it, then following the track past a set of pads it takes a turn to the left, in that area scrape the coating from it to reveal the copper and add a liberal dab of flux paste, next solder a wire from pin 10 to the strip of bare copper, and thats it.
Here is a pic of the completed drive....
I tested the drive by booting from it, formating a disk in it then do a diskcopy of Workbench then boot from it.
Disk changed worked properly, one issue I did appear to have was once the Workbench disk was copied from DF1 a copy_of_workbench didnt appear on the desktop, but everything else went ok and I booted successfully from the modified drive. I also tried a couple of games without any issues.
I always knew/suspected PC bits 'HAD' to be useful for a 'proper' computer 
