Commodore 128D PAL with not reading floppy drive

[timofonic]

Hello.

I recently got a Commodore 128D but it has problems reading floppy disks. It's the european one with plastic case.

When starting, it flashes the green led and some noise. Then stops.

I have little idea about how to repair it, but maybe someone could look into it if providing him the enough information.

Some people said me to try formatting a 5 1/4 floppy disk but I don't have one for that. I'll try to find one. I suposse all of them selled are used and nobody makes new ones so the unused ones are quite expensive, right?

I found some links about this, but I'm having problems assimilating all that...

http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm/1571diag.txt
http://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/c64/library/troubleshooting-1541.txt
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/display.cgi?32
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/display.cgi?233
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/display.cgi?386
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/display.cgi?429
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/display.cgi?565



Anyway, it could be interesting to know if there are trustful people people in Europe able to repair the floppy drive.



Regards.


PS: What about a wiki in this site?

[SmallCleverDinosaur]

When starting, it flashes the green led and some noise. Then stops.

Are you sure the drive is having problems? This sound like the normal behaviour of the drive of the C128D starting.

Some people said me to try formatting a 5 1/4 floppy disk but I don't have one for that. I'll try to find one. I suposse all of them selled are used and nobody makes new ones so the unused ones are quite expensive, right?

What do you mean exactly? Are you saying you don't have any floppies at all? If so, how do you know the drive indeed has problems reading discs? Or do you mean you don't have any blank discs for formatting? If so, you can always format a non-blank disc to see if it works. The drive won't mind if the disc is unused or formatted when formatting it.