| From: | Andy Carlile |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 17:14:50 |
| Subject: | Re: Someone just please please help!!! |
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>From: Sam Thomas <stom@redhotant.com>
>To: amigactive@egroups.com
>Subject: [amigactive] Re: Someone just please please help!!!
>Date: Wed, May 3, 2000, 12:41 pm
>
> Hello Michael
>
> On 03-May-00, you wrote:
>
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: oruk_amigan@btinternet.com [mailto:oruk_amigan@btinternet.com]
>>>
>>>> will NOT work on this pass-thur :( And you need the 4-way clock-port
>>>> expander to extend the clock port connector AWAY from the
>>> space the BVision
>>>
>>>> takes up. The Melody1200 (is that still in production for
>>> A1200?) comes
>>>> with an extender cable IIRC for people with a BVision too.
>>>
>>> Well least someone told me before I fudged again!! ;)
>>> Basically what I will
>>> do then is buy some ribbon cable, and a plug for that clock
>>> port header pins
>>> (using 22pins, not 40?) and run a small extension from under
>
>> Well bloody good luck then, I tried and tried for 6 months to do this but
>> it seems impossible to get hold of high denisty header sockets, (same as
>> used on 2.5" HDD). The connector you need is half a 44-pin IDE socket and
>> are like gold dust it seems, well from the major bits 'n' bobs suppliers
>> Maplins and RS... they even put me in contact with other 'specialists' but
>> no go there either :-/
>
>> Getting the high density ribbon cable is enough for a nightmare! I melted
>> my Catweasel cable and had to rebuild it from a hacked up 2.5"-> 3.5"
>> cable.... and i'm not sure if it fully works anymore :(
>
>
> I know what you mean! I have an AteoBus in my system and when I got online I
> thought that it would be a good idea to buy a faster serial port, so I got
> the Twister.MkII. There was one thing that I forgot to do when I ordered it
> though... Ask about any problems I may have fitting it.
>
> Next day the package arrived and I stripped my EZ-Tower down, pulled it all
> to bits and then removed the AteoBus. Minutes later Twister in place...
> Argh! the AteoBus don't want to fit any more! : (
>
> I spent the next week ringing around all sorts of electronics suppliers and
> trying all over the shop to get a extension cable, Alas no luck.
>
> Next day my Netconnect3 package arrived (from Eyetech) and I thought,
> 'bugger this', so I got my old 3.5" IDE cable and butchered that up into a
> 1.5" long bit of ribon cable. Then I proceeded to solded this straight onto
> the clockport connection and then over to the Twister connection (All
> heat-shrinked to stop shortouts (hopefully!)). I then reasembled my system,
> powered up, (usual fiddling with AteoBus + Apollo follows) and it worked!.
>
> Thing is though, I really wanted one of those sound cards to go with it but
> it looks a bit unlikely now : /
>
>
>
I actually used a ide cable for 2.5 drive cut the connectors to size and
used stiff copper wire to make pins for the hypercom3 card (Port Plus) to
fit too works a treat still had to use raisers for the power flyer
cheers andy
a1200t 060/50 32mb 10.2gb HD ls120 and CDrom
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