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- From: tadahiro.kubota@f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp (Tadahiro Kubota)
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- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 23:37:11 GMT
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- Hi! This is Tadahiro Kubota
-
- > 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!
-
- I met same situation as yours. In that time A1200 Internal FD was touched
- with metal sealed case. Then the motor spinning was disturbed by that
- happenning. Please check your motor noise carefully. It might be able to
- hear cyclic noise so it was caused upper reason.
- This was cured by release screw that is fixed FD drive on A1200 body.
- There is 3 screws around FD. The most important one is near expansion
- slot.
-
- Hope your help.
-
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- Mitsuru.Noguchi
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