16 Aug
2021
16 Aug
'21
8:10 a.m.
Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the floppy goes and mounted
a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching
floppy drive to restore machine to original look.
- Ethan
16 Aug
16 Aug
10:02 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the
floppy goes and mounted
a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching
floppy drive to restore machine to original look.
Those funky 150RPM Amiga HD drives are made from unicorns. I have one. I may
have even seen another at some point in the last 30 years, but couldn't say
for sure.
If you don't need HD support, I suggest just taking the front off that PC
drive and 3D-printing a plausible-looking fascia for it.
10:11 a.m.
Those funky 150RPM Amiga HD drives are made from
unicorns. I have one. I may
have even seen another at some point in the last 30 years, but couldn't say
for sure.
If you don't need HD support, I suggest just taking the front off that PC
drive and 3D-printing a plausible-looking fascia for it.
I mostly don't care about disks at all other than archiving them, the
issue is the prior owner after the machine was older... cut a giant hole
where the left floppy drive was... and mounted a normal PC drive inside.
So the front has a larger than the drive hole cut in it. I will get a
picture. It's because the A3000 used custom form fitted drives that match
the front plastic unlike the 2000 where it was just a normal drive in a
2.5" hole. I have a few external Amiga floppies, so maybe the A3000 drive
is just one of those inside with a different eject button?
First thing to solve is the plastic face, then I can worry about floppy.
The right drive has a plastic thing over it still as I recall.
On my A2500HD I just run a SCSI2SD with a bracket I 3d printed that holds
the board against an expansion slot... so I can remove the SD card now
without taking off the cover. I can boot the SD card in WinUAE, copy stuff
over, eject it.
- Ethan
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