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- From: bharvey@mhaug.uumh.ab.ca (Bill Harvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to connect a PC CDROM to A1200?
- Date: 31 Jan 96 21:16:31 PST
- Organization: MHAUG
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- Message-ID: <bharvey.0czc@mhaug.uumh.ab.ca>
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- Hi there,
- Basically you need a 3.5 IDE Hard Drive install kit which consists of the
- following:
- 1.44 way ribbon cable.
- 2.40 way ribbon cable.
- 3.44 pin to 40 pin converter,basically a male 40 pin and a male 44 pin
- connector connected together on a small pcb.
- 4.A power cable to draw power from you A1200(Not recomended but works).
- You may need to install 2 IDE devices the master device being a Hard drive as
- I don't think you can boot from a CD Rom maybe you can with a cd with some
- form of WB on it.
- Two devices can be attatched using a standard 2 IDE device 40 way ribbon cable
- used on most PC's.
- It's probably safer to mount them both in a PC midi Tower from which you can
- draw your power.
- I've actually just finished putting together an instruction sheet on fitting
- various IDE devices to an A1200, if you E mail me your address I cam mail it
- to you. Maybe I coul also E mail you the text.
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- * Bill Harvey Amiga 1200 *
- * Seagate 40(weep weep) MB HD *
- * E Mail bharvey@mhaug.uumh.ab.ca Toshiba XM5302B Quad Speed CD Rom *
- * Amiga............Pure Guinness Second Seagate 40MB redundent *
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