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Amiga Drive Compatibility /computolio/amiga_floppy_compatibility.html 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. The problem stems mainly from the fact that Commodore used low-density drives throughout the Amiga line up until the Amiga 4000 and 3000T. (After that they made things even worse by switching to custom-made high-density drives that spun at half the speed of a normal high-density floppy drive.) In contrast, low-density drives were quickly phased out of use in the IBM world sometime around the mid-1980s and can be found on only the oldest of machines. The aim of this guide is to provide information on which disk drives will work or can be made to work in an Amiga. If properly configured, some drives listed will work right away, and some will work with modifications. Most others cannot be configured at all. Drives that cant be reconfigured can be made to sort of work with a cable hack, but the diskchange signal will probably not work right (at least, it never worked for me). As a result, the Amiga will not be able to tell whether or not the drive has a disk inside. It is not possible to swap disks in games or start up an Amiga 1000 past the insert Workbench screen with this trick. Drives that have been modifi