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From: Leif Bloomquist on 24 Aug 2006 12:47 "Ulf D. Harries" <spam(a)me.now> wrote in message news:44edc9cd$0$13988$edfadb0f(a)dread15.news.tele.dk... > Am I too late? Or is there still hope? I only need a single kit? There's still plenty of demand, so I might grab another 20-pack of kits from JPPBM and put them up on eBay. Probably won't be for a couple of weeks, though. I'll announce it here.
From: Ulf D. Harries on 24 Aug 2006 13:34 "Leif Bloomquist" <spam(a)127.0.0.600> wrote in message news:12erlqo7ev0ifb(a)news.supernews.com... > There's still plenty of demand, so I might grab another 20-pack of kits > from JPPBM and put them up on eBay. Probably won't be for a couple of > weeks, though. I'll announce it here. Great, thanks!
From: Ferg on 24 Aug 2006 14:15
I finally got around to putting mine together.... and it works a treat! I used a samsung SFD-321B floppy drive, and modded the connector on the drive mechanism in a similar fashion to the instructions provided. I even removed the HD sensing switch so that I can now freely format HD disks down to the 1581 format. Since I am in the UK, and didnt have access to a spare power supply, I found a company that supplies a USB to IDE HDD / CDrom enclosure which comes with a switching power supply providing both the 5 and 12 volt lines. The enclosure only cost £10 complete with the PSU. I also managed to glue an original A500 disk release button to the drive, so the facia fits perfectly. Cheers Leif. Fergus. SbM wrote: > Mark Smith <strandedinnz(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > > Thanks for the kit though .. still not tried mine out yet, got to get a > > known working Amiga drive first, think the one I have is snafoo. > > Same here, except my drives work fine but: > > a/ My external 1010 Amiga drive is not a Chinon mechanism and has the > connector soldered the other way round, making it difficult to put in > the 1581 case. > > b/ My A600 and A1200 drives have a slightly larger eject button that > won't fit in the 1581 case. > > c/ I'd rather not use the drive from my A500. > > Well I guess I'll have to ask my fellow French commodorians for a spare > Amiga 500 drive, then... ;-) > > Anyway, thanks again for the deal, Leif ;-) > -- > [SbM] > <http://sebastienmarty.free.fr> - <http://tradintosh.free.fr> > <http://sbm.ordinotheque.free.fr> - <http://palmiciel.free.fr> > "If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English" (W. Sheed) |