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Amiga 4000 Pwr.Supply?

    03-Jul-94 20:54:53
Fm: Hilary Szymanowski 70035,510
To: James Scott 71650,3117
Thanks for the news of your success James – with the Toaster software. I only have one (SCSI) hard disk installed – a 345 Meg Maxtor. At the moment have found another drive… but only 120 Megs, but am going to try that one to see if it will do the job – but with very limited capacity. The only "mechanical" devices I have at thre moment, is the DF0 floppy… and the hard drive. Maybe some hard drives take more power than others…. as perhaps in your case. Have heard many tales of woe about the 4000 power supply. The fallout is that it is both "tacky" and certainly under powered. It is supposed to be regulated at both 12 and 5 volts, but certainly from the measurements I have taken with an accurate VOM meter… that is just not so in the Amiga 4000 supply. All the best….. Hilary