Compatabilities Differences in the Teac FD-235HF range of floppy disc drives.

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postage is the big killer you might be able to find one closer for free local pick up

You might get these on Ebay im not sure which country you are in this might guide you to one
you could get this on Ebay if you dont have an account you will need to create one
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Add Email adress
Add Bank Acc
Add Credit Card
also add your postal adress
also add a paypal account

when you get to the paypal login page at the bottom you will see new to paypal sign up tab
paypal to create an account
paypal registration password ,bank card /credit card,phone numbers home/mobile ,email adress and a postal adress
http://www.paypal.com/

be very specific when you type in the search
always ask questions? before you make a purchase and keep the email/s for security reasons if the item arrives and its not as described

you will even see the pictures of your item so you cant make a mistake and get them home delivered

hope this helps you

This page has information about the floppy drive data connector pinout, and their page about the power connector is here.

Replace the faulty floppy disk

This drive supports Ready signal or Disk Change signal on pin 34 (RY34 or DC34), has a large number of jumpers for various settings, thus (unlike the standard 235HF drive which works in PCs only) this drive can used to replace a 720k drive on older computers such as Amstrad CPC/PCW or Commodore AMIGA.

check the jumper settings, not sure

well fistly floppy are old technology and they naturally make a sound when accessing files. however the sound get noisy and irritating when you try to access floppy disks that have developed bad sectors (physical damaged, viral damage, dusty etc)

if your floppy drive makes noise even with brand new disks then it would have accummulated dusts on its magnetic reading head the solution is using cleaning floppies which are becoming less available in shops these days (but are still there). Or if you up to practicall thing open and clean up the read/write head manually. dont worry the thing is close to what the radio cassette head look-alike.

1.2 MB? is this a 5 1/4" drive you are talking about?

You need an older floppy IDE ribbon. No drivers needed for that.

Have you tried WWW.Driverguide.com - Generally I have found all the drivers I need there. Else try the manufacturer's web site at www.teac.com

Hi, i have installed thousands of Internal Floppy drives and there aint no conflicts between win/95/98/me and xp. all discs should be compatible, unless you took it from a apple machine for example. did it work when you put in a new floppy drive? all the best John

There are a few different applications that can aid you in doing this. Here is one. http://www.accurite.com/AAD.html Most often than not, the heads will not be realigned properly with such software, and the cost of purchasing the mechanical tools to do it manually and the time and energy it takes outweigh the cost of just buying a new drive. If you are having read/write problems, and an inexpensive head cleaner (http://pc-extras.com/prods/cl35ck.html) does not solve the problem, I would recommend replacement.