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- From: ericpot@ripco.com (Eric Pot)
- Subject: Help re: Installing IDE Drive
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- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 04:29:21 GMT
-
- So now I am real depressed.
-
- Without anyone telling me Im a dork, or that perhaps I shouldnt have done
- this, please help me out.
-
- I was putting in a larger 2.5 drive into my 1200. Replacing my 60meg seagate
- with a 210 meg seagate. Shoould have be a snap, which is why I want paying
- much attention. I pulled the drive off without looking at the IDE connection
- and popped the new one on. Well the sad part is there are more pins on the
- drives that on the IDE cable in my Amiga. Besides being dumbfounded at this
- rediculous design.... it also means there are about six ways to put that cable
- on the drive. So the first one I lucked into was clearly wrong... When I
- booted up the screen flased red and then just stayed like that. Which was my
- first clue something was askew which is when I noticed that the pinouts didnt
- match up. (NO COMMENTS!)
-
- SO I am assuming that I probably blew the drive (getting the power in the
- wrong pin) and perhaps the IDE port itself. Anyone care to speculate how bad I
- screwed this thing up. The computer still boots from floppy which is a
- blessing.. but no hardrive and you dont really have a computer do you?
-
- Can someone detail the correct attachment of the drive to the cable, so I can
- at least give a shot at getting it up and running.
-
- Boy am I depressed.
- Thanks in advance,
- ERIC
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