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- From: John McCrea <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: A1200 problems
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 22:31:14 GMT
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- Mark & Michelle Wood (bamf13@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- > In <Pine.SGI.3.91.960306170201.28724A-100000@storm.stud.unit.no> Tarjei
- > Knapstad <tarjeik@stud.unit.no> writes:
-
- re: his 1200 not booting from floppy
-
- >
- >[snip]
- >
- > Ummm, no, actually I had tried that first (disk in before power on).
- > The disk I was trying to use is a DOS disk (works on my other Amiga).
- > I even tried disks that are A1200 specific. Even the external drive
- > does the same thing. I think the fact that it says ???? (non-dos) is a
- > hardware related problem. The only time it sort-of read a DOS disk was
- > when I went into the early boot options, but it failed half-way thru
- > the load. It hasn't worked since, either. But the hd still boots
- > okay. Well, thanks, any other ideas?
-
- Here's a long shot. I had this after fitting a hard drive to my sons'
- 1200 (except we don't have an external drive). The power connector for the
- floppy was apparently correctly connected to the motherboard, but after a
- lot of messing about, I discovered that two of the metal pins inside the
- plastic plug had moved up as the plug was refitted due to the little tang
- thing that is supposed to lock them into the plug losing its spring.
- These two pins were thus sitting on top of the motherboard pins,
- sufficiently to make the drive power-up sometimes, but when it did, we got
- read/write errors etc. I just bent the tang out a bit and they locked in
- OK. You might try refitting both power and data cables at both the drive
- and motherboard (alhough whether this would affect an external drive, I
- wouldn't know).
-
- Hope this helps
-
- John
-
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