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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 17:48:21 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4hprt5$liq@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <4hk5ae$ab4@cloner4.netcom.com> <tadahiro.kubota-0803960839440001@f11kmac1.f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp>
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- In <tadahiro.kubota-0803960839440001@f11kmac1.f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp>
- tadahiro.kubota@f11k.f.rd.honda.co.jp (Tadahiro Kubota) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >Mitsuru.Noguchi
-
- Thanks for your response. Yes, I can hear something 'clunking'
- occasionally. Would this cause the external drive to malfunction,
- though? The external works fine with my A500, but fails to read when
- connected to the A1200 (still reads ????). I will look at what you
- suggested. Thanks!
-