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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Blizzard 1230-IV and HD
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- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:16:04 GMT
- References: <3114D45E.28B9@student.tdb.uu.se>
- <3118A188.198F@era-t.ericsson.se>
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- In article <3118A188.198F@era-t.ericsson.se>,
- Hans Hall <eraxhal@era-t.ericsson.se> writes:
- >I wrote :
- >>
- >> Hi,
- >> I have a Blizzard 1230-IV + FPU, and a 3.5" IDE HD installed. Sometimes when I
- >> (cold)-boot my machine, no HD is found. The hand with the floppy is neither coming
- >> up. It's just black. The HD is found again (I've tried it 2-3 times, at it worked all
- >> the time) by removing the HD cable from the interface inside the 1200. When it once
- >> has found the HD, I can warm-boot it without any problems.
- >> Does anybody know something about this??
- >>
- >> /Hans Hall
- >
- >Hi. I'm answering this myself, if anyone else wants to know about it. I think I've
- >found the problem :). If you turn off your computer just after you have pressed
- >CTRL+AMIGA+AMIGA (when the blue stripes appear on the screen) this fault will appear.
- >
- > //Hans
-
- Apparantly the Blizzard has problems with some 3.5 inch HDs. As 3.5 inch
- HD are not recommended equipment on a A1200, you only have yourself
- to blame (sorry :-> ). I believe the solution *may* lie in investing
- in a bigger power supply unit.
-
- -FISH- ><>
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-