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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help re: Installing IDE Drive
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 21:52:28 -0800
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- Eric Pot (ericpot@ripco.com) wrote:
- : 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!)
-
- Was the 60 Meg Drive a 2.5" drive also? 2.5" IDE Drives are 44 pin. 40
- of them are for the IDE connection and the other 4 supply power though
- it's all in just the 1 44 pin Plug. The 3.5" IDE Drives have the 40 Pin
- IDE Connection, and another 4 Pin Power Plug. You can of course use a
- 3.5" drive with the A1200 with some Hacking.
-
- I had a 210 meg 2.5" Seagate myself though mine just went haywire on me
- so I bought a 3.5" 1083 Meg IDE Seagate drive to use since it's so much
- cheaper $198.
-
- There's also another 4 Pins almost Next to the other 44 Pins, those are
- Jumpers, to make it Master/Slave whatever. There should be nothen there
- to me the Master drive with no Slave Drive, Thats Normally the default
- for all IDE drives.
-
- Make sure you get the 44 Pin Cable correly PLUGED into the 44 pin Plug in
- the Hard Drive. It might be posible to Not plug it in correly if you
- force it, posibley bending pins.
-
- Hopefully the drives not fryed. Make sure the cable it fully pluged in
- the Drive and ON the A1200's end also. When looking though the Mag I
- found the drive I just bought, I saw the 210 Meg Seagate drive going for
- $110 from ABC Drives. Prices Jump WAY WAY up from that size drive.
-
- : 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.
-
- The Plug looks like this
- ...................... ..
- ............ ......... ..
- ^ ^
- IDE Plug Jumpers
-
-