This was very useful. My A500 chinon drive doesn’t work and it could be the caps it would seem. For what they cost it would be worthwhile replacing them. I’ve never done it before but it looks very straightforward.
Although my A1200 already was recapped by the previous owner, it's always interesting to see these kind of videos, as you can still learn things from it. 1:53 The actual version 1.20 of Amiga Testkit can be used from WB, too. But not older versions.
@@PJBonoVox What? People on the internet are wrong? Well, I've never! Also, yes, it's most likely just IPA. 99% is completely fine to use on electronics, and does not damage it. If you are unsure if your cleaning solution is good, just put a cotton swab in it, and wipe it on a clean mirror surface (easier to see there). If it leaves a film after evaporating, to not use it to clean heads and so on. (97% is also completely okay, but 70% and likes I'd be careful with due to dilution and water content.)
I have commodore Amiga 600 and internal floppy drive won't read floppy disk anymore because I clean with alcohol on the head of floppy drive and can u please help me how to fix internal floppy drive head?...
Great video, have this issue on one of my amigas, now i know the cause. Would be great to see a you do the Floppy Fix for the Escom Amiga 1200's to use an amiga drive instead of the pc floppy drive that Escom put in due to an amiga floppy shortage at the time which caused me so much grief back in the day trying to load so many amiga disks from boot.
I don't have an escom 1200, both mine are from the Commodore days. I had always thought that they simply modified a PC drive to work in the Amiga rather than actually modifying the 1200s board? Can you not just swap out to an Amiga drive and it works?
@@CRG unfortunately not. There is a fairly easy tweak to make on the motherboard with a single wire that escom had added to the bottom of the motherboard at the floppy port. I know that you have to move one end of that wire to another pin before you can make the amiga reuse a normal Amiga floppy. I believe there is also a tweak to make on the floppy drive too, although it might be just to do one or the other. If you google “escom floppy fix” and also youtube and you’ll see what i mean. Cheers!
i have an issue with the floppy on the a1200, it just does 3 clicks when putting a floppy and then nothing happens, and on workbench it says DF0??. it's same issue as here?
I have a question in regards to floppy drives and a1200.... If the 1200 boots any disk, but do not detect floppy swap. And does it on every disk drive, including gotek drive. And the board is a Commodore and not Escom. Then what to look for?
@@CRG I will let him know. Personally I have no knowledge to fix such an error. And I dont know if it could be the floppy cable as well. But I will pass this on to him.
does any1 know where i can download free hdf (Amiga hard disc files) from? on google? because i wanted to download both games and programs too thanks......... hdf hard disc files preloaded with games and programming software etc thanks..............??.....
It's not "ew-ef", it's microfarads (μF). The "u" is an ASCII glyph approximation of the greek symbol for "mi", μ (often falsely described as "mu"), hence micro. For example, you might have seen latency printed "us", that's microseconds, μs.
Great timing Glen as my A1200 FDD has the exact same symptoms and I need to take a look. This will be really helpful. I'm hoping it's just in need of a clean as it was working on and off, but maybe it's caps. Did you test the old caps after removing them to confirm that they were the problem?
Thanks Chris. Its seems like the caps are a common problem in this model of drive. I didn't test them to be honest but they are still lying on the mat along side the motherboard so after the recap of that I will take all the caps and test them to see what state they are in.
@@CRG cool. Well I think I'll go with the clean, but I'll be armed with the knowledge that if they doesn't work, I should replace the caps. Thanks again for an awesome helpful video.
Yeah you could maybe do that, depends on if the drive can be altered to work on an Amiga. A lot of them are slim drives though so mounting it light be tricky.
Recap Video ✔✔ ... and don't bother with that time consuming desoldering station, I've seen plenty of videos of people removing the old caps with pliers (twist & pull). Guaranteed to work at least some of the time :) ( Do it that way if you want the next video to be "How to repair an A1200 lol )
Well done Captain! I just watched over an hour GadgetUK's Video "ua-cam.com/video/jvcoUgMO0Q0/v-deo.html", but this one is highly interesting too - thank you as always!
Always up for an Amiga recapping video. I like to see how different people do things as you can always learn something new even in my mid 50's
Just waiting on the parts to arrive then I'll get stuck in.
Nice informative video. 😃
This was very useful. My A500 chinon drive doesn’t work and it could be the caps it would seem. For what they cost it would be worthwhile replacing them. I’ve never done it before but it looks very straightforward.
Il drive del mio A600 ha lo stesso problema,sospettavo il problema ai condensatori,li cambierò. bel lavoro al drive dell'A1200
Amiga Recap videos are always welcomed. Thanks for another great video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. As soon as the parts arrive I'll get stuck into the recap.
Wow, I had no idea that’s all it was. I have a floppy to fix tonight! Yay!
Hope it worked for you.
Love your videos Glen, even a recapping. Very nice watching it while at breakfast. Hope to see you "reconditioning" the board too.
very good crg....yes i want to see the recap....why not....i like it...
Although my A1200 already was recapped by the previous owner, it's always interesting to see these kind of videos, as you can still learn things from it.
1:53 The actual version 1.20 of Amiga Testkit can be used from WB, too. But not older versions.
another great video thankyou! - also mismatched brands of ROMs is common even from factory, I've seen it a number of times.
Thanks for letting me know.
Like to see the recap work. It is always an interesting journey in my experiance 😂 thx for your nice videos
Nice fix and def do a Recap Video! -Mark.
Thanks, just waiting on the parts to arrive then we'll get stuck into the recap.
Of course we like to see recapping:-) Cool you got the floppy drive running, did not expect anything else but a working device ;-) o7 Cmdr
Glad you were confident lol. Just waiting on 1 part to arrive then I'll get stuck into the recap. o7 cmdr.
😀o7
@@CRG btw my Cmdrs name in Elite is Rory MacNab
Very good. Thank you
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Nice video and tidy work, as usual yours are. Looking for another one! Cheers, M
Thank you. Cheers!
Good video. My friends Amiga 500+ has the same problem. Good chance the caps need also to be replaced.
Possibly, it seems to be a common problem and certainly worth trying if you're drive is bringing up DF0:????
Nice one Glenn 👍👍
Thanks
Nice and easy fix. I'm intrigued as to what's in the head cleaning fluid though - I thought it was usually isopropyl alcohol?
That's a good point actually, its very well might just be isopropyl.
@@CRG It is. No idea what those commenters were on about. It's almost as if they were just repeating some nonsense they heard 🙄
@@PJBonoVox What? People on the internet are wrong? Well, I've never!
Also, yes, it's most likely just IPA. 99% is completely fine to use on electronics, and does not damage it. If you are unsure if your cleaning solution is good, just put a cotton swab in it, and wipe it on a clean mirror surface (easier to see there). If it leaves a film after evaporating, to not use it to clean heads and so on.
(97% is also completely okay, but 70% and likes I'd be careful with due to dilution and water content.)
@@PJBonoVox That's what I thought. Every other channel I've seen uses IA.
Yes do recap ❤
Just waiting on 1 part to arrive then its recap time.
I have commodore Amiga 600 and internal floppy drive won't read floppy disk anymore because I clean with alcohol on the head of floppy drive and can u please help me how to fix internal floppy drive head?...
Great video, have this issue on one of my amigas, now i know the cause. Would be great to see a you do the Floppy Fix for the Escom Amiga 1200's to use an amiga drive instead of the pc floppy drive that Escom put in due to an amiga floppy shortage at the time which caused me so much grief back in the day trying to load so many amiga disks from boot.
I don't have an escom 1200, both mine are from the Commodore days.
I had always thought that they simply modified a PC drive to work in the Amiga rather than actually modifying the 1200s board? Can you not just swap out to an Amiga drive and it works?
@@CRG unfortunately not. There is a fairly easy tweak to make on the motherboard with a single wire that escom had added to the bottom of the motherboard at the floppy port. I know that you have to move one end of that wire to another pin before you can make the amiga reuse a normal Amiga floppy. I believe there is also a tweak to make on the floppy drive too, although it might be just to do one or the other. If you google “escom floppy fix” and also youtube and you’ll see what i mean. Cheers!
i have an issue with the floppy on the a1200, it just does 3 clicks when putting a floppy and then nothing happens, and on workbench it says DF0??. it's same issue as here?
Could be, no harm in swapping out the old caps to try it.
That's nuts!
I have a question in regards to floppy drives and a1200.... If the 1200 boots any disk, but do not detect floppy swap. And does it on every disk drive, including gotek drive. And the board is a Commodore and not Escom. Then what to look for?
First thought would be the change signal. It's on pin 2 at the drive and runs to pin 7 on via U7. This line should go low when the disk is removed.
Could be a bad via i.e. U7
@@CRG I will let him know. Personally I have no knowledge to fix such an error. And I dont know if it could be the floppy cable as well. But I will pass this on to him.
Awesome video thanks again for the great demo. It's more like a mew f than a uf. Yup I'm that annoying guy.
does any1 know where i can download free hdf (Amiga hard disc files) from? on google? because i wanted to download both games and programs too thanks......... hdf hard disc files preloaded with games and programming software etc thanks..............??.....
It's not "ew-ef", it's microfarads (μF). The "u" is an ASCII glyph approximation of the greek symbol for "mi", μ (often falsely described as "mu"), hence micro. For example, you might have seen latency printed "us", that's microseconds, μs.
Technically correct so can't fault you there but I'm sure I'm not the first person to be lazy and just say U F.
Why have a CF card buried in the 1200 when you could just use a PCMCIA-to-CF adapter and put the CF card in there?
CWU hasn't striked yet. Not yet, at least.
Great timing Glen as my A1200 FDD has the exact same symptoms and I need to take a look. This will be really helpful. I'm hoping it's just in need of a clean as it was working on and off, but maybe it's caps. Did you test the old caps after removing them to confirm that they were the problem?
Thanks Chris. Its seems like the caps are a common problem in this model of drive. I didn't test them to be honest but they are still lying on the mat along side the motherboard so after the recap of that I will take all the caps and test them to see what state they are in.
@@CRG cool. Well I think I'll go with the clean, but I'll be armed with the knowledge that if they doesn't work, I should replace the caps. Thanks again for an awesome helpful video.
What about taking the floppy drive out of an external USB Floppy Drive and putting that into the AMIGA 1200.
Yeah you could maybe do that, depends on if the drive can be altered to work on an Amiga. A lot of them are slim drives though so mounting it light be tricky.
Are you recapping the recap?
I wish I seen this video earlier! Lol!
Recap Video ✔✔ ... and don't bother with that time consuming desoldering station, I've seen plenty of videos of people removing the old caps with pliers (twist & pull). Guaranteed to work at least some of the time :) ( Do it that way if you want the next video to be "How to repair an A1200 lol )
Just grab with pliers and pull then? Thanks for the tip, that'll save time 🤣🤣🤣
Well done Captain! I just watched over an hour GadgetUK's Video "ua-cam.com/video/jvcoUgMO0Q0/v-deo.html", but this one is highly interesting too - thank you as always!
GadgetUK is great at what he does, I've been watching and supporting his channel for years now. Glad to hear you enjoyed my video too 😁
That 1200 looks like it has a spray-on tan. :) heh...
Thanks for the tip 👍