It should. I've taken working 3.5" drive mechanisms from the 500s and put them in 1581 cases and they both work and fit nicely with the 1581 faceplate. I'm sure that it will work out for you. It's the 3.5" drive mechanisms from Amiga 2000s that work but don't fit and that's an awful pain to work around.

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thanks ...
that makes it worth all

the drive has arived
it's sooo sweet

but only one problem ... the power connection pinns are placed in difrent places than to the other 64 stuff i got .... i need to findout how to change the places of the pinns from an swedish-c64 powersuply to fit this one...

Glad that everything got sorted out

@marelock: Yes you can use a A500 drive!

And yes, £430 for a -never mind how mint it is- 1581 is really nuts IMHO

now i got it all set up .... installed the drive from amiga 1010 external 3,5 ... fitts nice and all ... i took a chance and just moved one of the pins in one power suply and it seems to work ..

just that the motor in the drive is spinning all the time but it can be the drive it self
I have never used a diskdrive and would love if some one could tell me if i do right... like this
-starts the c64 and drive connected.-
Load"$",8
(think that is for load all)i wanted just to load and then -List- to se that its working

and 430£ is mad when i saw it i was thinking that they have just missed to put the , on 43£

hmm maby the drive i put in it is fucked ...

?device not present error

going for a new one .....
this time one that says -tested and works fine

not one -tested and i think it works

basterd no more money have to wait and wait .....
and more bad is that it means no more beer

marelock; the power supply for the c64 is not same as for the 1541-II and 1581 drives. The c64 psu is unregulated AC 5v/12v and the drive psu's are regulated DC 9v/5v IIRC. Hence the different pins!! The psu for 1541-II and 1581 are same though. But you probably ruined your drive already if you hooked it to a c64 psu! Sorry mate

lol

i'm just soooo glad now any way ... have bought one new drive OC-118N and it works butifull

all the problems with lunix not loading the shell and contiki not finding the internet and loading some games are gone ... contiki software works nice all is like heven here now

and thanks raveguru
i will put the 1581 disk on ice for a while now

C64 power supply: 5V DC / 9V AC
Drive power supplies: 5V DC / 12V DC

All DC voltages are regulated AFAIK.

Ah yes! I mixed it up a bit there but the result is pretty much the same in this case I suppose: Crash and burn!

Plugging a C64 power supply into a 1581 (or 1541-II) is likely to destroy both the drive, and the power supply. Bending the pins so it fits anyway is not a very clever thing to do...