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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: A1200 problems
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 13:52:14 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4hk5ae$ab4@cloner4.netcom.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-tac-wa1-09.ix.netcom.com
- X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Mar 06 5:52:14 AM PST 1996
-
- I recently got an A1200 (& A500) for $100. The A1200 has MBX1200 card
- with fpu and 4mb ram. It also has an internal hard drive. It came
- with a 1942 monitor and lots of disks. It was a good deal but here is
- the problem--the A1200 boots fine off of the harddrive but will not
- boot any floppy disk. I get an icon that says ???? for the name. One
- time, using boot options, I disabled all of the other devices except
- df0:, switched to original chipset, and cpu cache off. When I told it
- to boot (no disk in the drive) the floppy drive made a click then I got
- a message no disk in the drive. I put in a bootable disk, it booted up
- to a certain point (workbench came up) then it started saying tracks
- were unreadable (the disk works fine in my original A500 btw). I have
- tried this again many times but it doesn't work now (the drive still
- makes a click sound). I have tried an external drive but I get the
- same results (the external drive works ok with my A500). So do I have
- a bad chip, or possibly a bad drive? I am currently able to use it in
- a limited fashion thru the serial port (again the hd works ok) and for
- $100 it was a good deal (2 Amigas, a monitor, a software). But I would
- really like to get the A1200 floppies going for the games! If anyone
- has any ideas I would appreciate it. Thanks!
-