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- From: ths@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Schwoeppe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: How do I remove a second IDE drive from an A4000?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 09:36:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Paderborn, Germany
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- Message-ID: <4cg73f$kk4@news.uni-paderborn.de>
- Reply-To: ths@uni-paderborn.de
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-
- Hi there!
- What might seem like a pretty odd question is (or was) actually a serious
- problem for me. Now here's the story.
-
- I finally bought a CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU 76S, quite satisfied with it)
- and surely wanted to put it in my A4000/040 desktop model.
- Anyone who owns such a beast knows that there's not much room to
- maneuvre. And, of course, there was not enough room to fit
- it in because the power connector of the CD-ROM drive conflicted with
- the power connector of one of my IDE harddisks (I have two sitting in
- the 3 1/2" internal drive bays). So my first thought was, throw out that
- slow and small Conner drive (120 MB, 700 KB/sec on a good day) and just use
- my new Quantum Fireball 1280. Did that and guess what, that damn computer
- didn't want to boot anymore, not even from floppy.
- It seems like it is expecting a second drive on the IDE bus.
- First I thought, it was a master/slave kind of jumper problem, but that
- didn't help (the Quantum was master anyway).
-
- So does anyone know how to remove that old Conner drive and still be able to
- boot? Maybe some HDToolBox magic will do the trick.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Thomas Schwoeppe <ths@uni-paderborn.de>
-
- BTW, I was able to get around the initial lack of space problem by
- turning both harddrives upside down and moving them further to the
- back of the bays (had to make new holes in the mounting frames and
- cut of a little bit off the slot plates (the ones on the back of a
- Zorro card where connectors reside, I don't know how to better express
- this, sorry)).
- The CD-ROM drive is now up and running, and it's great!
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