11 May
1998
11 May
'98
5:59 p.m.
I have been given an Amiga 600HD. It seems to work but
wont boot.
Investigation showed that althought there was a harddrive there was no
power going to it.
Does the machine use standard IDE drives, if so where did it poer up from,
there is no power socket adjacent to the IDE socket on the board. I suppose
that a Y cable connected to the supply going to the floppy would work.
Well, my A600 is missing the Hard Drive, but as I understand it, the power
is fed via the ribbon cable. It's basically a standard 2 1/2" IDE Hard
Drive. I know for the A1200 there are hacks that let you use a 3.5" HD in
it, but I don't know if these will work in the A600. You can buy cables
for this, but they might be a bit difficult for you to find in New Zealand.
If you have access to USENET the Amiga newsgroups are some of the best left
(man has USENET gone down hill since I first started using it). Just
beware the euphoria is running extremally high with everyone waiting for
the big announcement from Amiga, Inc. at "World of Amiga" in London this
weekend. The hype is this announcement will change the face of computing,
PERIOD, and will feature some BIG names.
Zane
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