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- From: sriddle@ionet.net (Sean Riddle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 4000's onboard IDE-controller and size?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 07:20:29 GMT
- Organization: Internet Oklahoma
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- Per Willy Trudvang Amundsen (perwilly._amundsen@cinet.no) wrote:
-
- : Or am I wrong here? Can I disable the Amiga 4000's onboard IDE-
- : controller in any way? Isn't that what Amiga Technologies have done
- : with the A4000 Tower?
-
- I've been using this hack on 2 A4000's for several months (since KS upped
- the delay time for IDE drives).
-
- Get a 40-pin female IDE header and wire a 5K resistor between pins 3 and 39,
- and between pins 5 and 39.
-
- Pins 3 and 5 are the high-order IDE data bits. Pin 39 is the IDE LED
- connection, which is tied high. This hack ties the two high-order IDE
- data bits high, making the ROM immediately skip looking for a drive.
-
- Plug the header onto the A4000 motherboard IDE connector, making sure it
- is on correctly.
- --
- Sean (sriddle@ionet.net)
- <a href="http://www.ionet.net/~sriddle">Please don't hurl on my URL!</a><p>
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