exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Thanks to everyone for all the advice. I bought a new adapter and a Scart cable. Tried the adapter first, the display worked perfectly. Workbench loads from disk. It gives me messages sometimes that it can't read the disk, but I will assume that it is something to do with the 35 year old floppy drive. When it asks me to swap disks the drive is normally still running, but I assume that is normal and that disks won't generally be damaged from a spinning drive. I guess that two drive systems were probably quite popular back in the day. Thanks again.

Well, drives could damage the disks if they're not properly cleaned with a cleaning disk.

Also bad disks can dirty up the heads, so worthwhile checking their overall condition before use. Giving the drive a service is also recommended, as many are dust filled.

Removing when spinning is not generally ideal. The mechanics of the drive will give some protection my moving the heads away, but I try not to do it unless really necessary.

This is why Gotek/Goex drives et al have come to the fore, 30 odd year old disks can fail, as can the drives.

I can also confirm that disks have knackered my drives.

Gotek for the win :lol: Ditch (old) magnetic media.
Simulant Systems had them in stock the other week.

Good advice. I took a Goex and put in the Amiga. It is not an Amiga version, the facade doesn't fit, I had to take it off, then it fits well inside the drive bay with a few millimetres packing under the screw. I have been playing Dune, great game, great music just to listen to, along with many others. Why did I wait so long to buy an Amiga? :D