#Bad HD cable?
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ARG! Every dad's Christmas nightmare!
Got the 2.5" IDE drive, _did_ manage to get the Commodore HD Install Kit, but
there is no joy in AmiLand. Not only don't you get HD instructions with a
HD-less 1200, you don't get them with the HD Install Kit either! However some
thoughtful soul has seen to it that you get about a dozen photostats on using a
floppy-based system. (Say what? How did they know?)
Once the cable is in place _without the HD attached_, the 1200 does not show an
"insert disk" screen. Take cable off, screen shows; put it back, doesn't show.
This leads me to believe the cable is bad since we'd presume that the lines are
all still open circuits with a bare cable attached.
Have I got it right? Anybody have any details/experiences to share?
Thanks in advance,
Malcolm
With the cable attached it is an open bus. This will hang up any
computer. Your friendy Amiga is trying to talk to the whats on the end of
the computer and noting is there but the Amiga knows that something is
sapose to be there. So it says ok he must have just steped out, I'll
wait. Hook up the hard drive (with the power off!) cable to the amiga and
the hard drive also the power cable to the hard drive. Now power back up
you'll have to put a work bench install disk in the floppy drive and just
follow the instructions. Make sure that you use copies of the original,
well that's it. Happy New Year
Jim
Thanks Jim,
> With the cable attached it is an open bus
OK, so I guess the cable attached two pins to do that. Didn't know. The
problem is, I _began_ by attaching cable and drive both, expecting to get
the animated "insert a disk" screen. But I didn't get that; not only with
just the cable attached but also with both cable and drive attached.
The other thing I didn't expect was to have more pins on the drive than I
have receptables on the cable!
I realize now that I didn't try it with a disk in the drive. Could it
possibly boot in that situation, without its even showing me the animated
screen?
Thanks again for your help,
Malcolm