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--- amiga:amiga_floppy_drive_compatibility [2008/10/29 04:33] – 130.65.157.209
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-==Amiga Floppy Drive Compatibility List==
+==== Amiga Floppy Drive Compatibility List ====
 Since a disk drive is by nature a moving part, it is inevitable that it will fail someday. The vast majority of Amiga computers out there are least a decade old (some are nearly 20 years old), and so many users have had the misfortune of their disk drives dying on them. Replacing them is difficult because while Amiga disk drives are for the most part electrically compatible with those used in the Wintels of today, there are slight but vital differences in terms of both signals and pinout.
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 |Manufacturer   |Model         |Works unmodified? |Can be modified? |Notes |
 |Alps Electric  |DF354H090F    |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
+|Chinon         |FB-354        |Yes               |N/A              |Has 6-pin jumper block on back. Short pins 3 and 5.|
+|Chinon         |FG-357        |Unknown           |N/A              |      |
 |Chinon         |FZ-354        |Yes               |N/A              |      |
 |Chinon         |FZ-354A       |Yes               |N/A              |      |
 |Chinon         |FZ-357        |Yes               |N/A              |      |
 |Chinon         |FZ-357A       |Yes               |N/A              |Will work as high-density drive in an Amiga.|
-|Chinon         |FB-354        |Yes               |N/A              |Has 6-pin jumper block on back. Short pins 3 and 5.|
 |Epson 	        |SMD-380       |No                |No               |      |
 |Epson          |SMD-300       |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |Epson          |SMD-340       |No                |No               |Has large jumper array on the back-First row labeled G,A,A,T,T,0,(BLANK),1, second row labeled H,(BLANK),L,(BLANK),S,2(BLANK),3. Docs are [[http://www.freewebs.com/computolio/SMD340.TXT|here]].|
+|Mitsubishi     |MF355F-258MG  |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |Mitsumi        |D359T7        |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |NEC            |FD1231H       |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |NEC            |FD1035        |Yes               |N/A              |Low-density drive.|
 |NEC            |FD1036 A      |Yes               |N/A              |Low-density drive.|
-|Panasonic      |JU-253-033P   |Yes               |N/A              |To make it work, set MS/MD to MD, 0/1/2/3 to 0, RY/DC to RY.|
+|Panasonic      |JU-253-033P   |Yes               |N/A              |Low-density drive. To make it work, set MS/MD to MD, 0/1/2/3 to 0, RY/DC to RY.|
-|Panasonic      |JU-253-243P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
+|Panasonic      |JU-253-243P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |Low-density drive.|
 |Panasonic      |JU-257A023F   |Partially         |Unknown          |Has 6 setting switches- 0/3/2/1, M0/M1, RY/DC, AT/PS2, NC/EX(or OUT/EX), A/B.|
 |Panasonic      |JU-257A137P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
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 |Panasonic      |JU-257A606PC  |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |Panasonic      |JU-257A607P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
+|Panasonic      |JU-257A624P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |      |
 |Panasonic      |JU-257T234P   |Unknown           |Unknown          |Has 5 setting switches- RY/DC, NC/OUT/IN, 0/3/2/1, SE/AT/PS2, MO/MS.|
 |Sony           |MPF920-F      |No                |No               |Has one setting jumper.|
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 Advice for unknown drives: if there's config switches or jumpers (sometimes you have to open the cover to get to them), experiment with every combination and see if that makes the drive work any better. If there aren't any, it's probably only going to work with the cable hack(which is not a practical solution) or an adapter board(which is costly).
+See also: http://www.pitsch.de/stuff/amiga/floppy.htm