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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #539 from previous page: August 26, 2013, 05:21:47 AM »
Bugger!

At least most laptop drives are that size/shape so finding a working replacement shouldn't be too hard.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1220 16Mhz 128MB w/ RTC, 4GB CF-HDD, Roland MT-32 MIDI Synthesiser
Amiga 500 w/ KS2.05, 1Mb Chip-Ram, CF-IDE w/4MB Fast-Ram, FDD Boot Selector, HxC RevC Floppy emulator
Commodore 64 w/ 1541 Ultimate-II inc Tape Adapter, JiffyDOS, 1541 Disk Drive, 1531 Datasette, Flyer Net Modem
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #540 on: August 26, 2013, 10:19:18 AM »
Find a nice beige one if able...  yeah some laptop p-ide drives are flakey when added to a shared cable. Did you try both IDE ports as cable select?

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #541 on: August 26, 2013, 10:25:37 AM »
I myself have had a hard time trying to find a beige one :/ But it looks good, keep up the good work Ammo Jammo.

Myself am working on a external DVD-drive (in a 5.25" case) for my A1200, not as nice as internal maybe but an external PATA connection will help file transfers when the PCMCIA slot is occupied :)
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #542 on: August 26, 2013, 06:19:04 PM »
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Well, this drive doesn't work on the Amiga...

I had originally planned to use a slot load drive, but stuffed the cutout just for the slot, so went to the tray load instead (which cost all of $13 from memory)

However, I had been booting with the CF as slave, and the DVD as cable select, which made it a master....

This new drive doesn't work like that, and I've now cut the wire on the IDE cable to set it to slave, and it still doens't work...

However, the previously drive doesn't seem to work as slave either..... argh :/


These work well on stock ide of most amiga's i have tried them on. Cd only of course:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-TEAC-CD-ROM-CD-224E-A33-1977047A-33-5064-7967-/300951971500?pt=US_CD_DVD_Blu_Ray_Drives&hash=item461222a6ac
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #543 on: August 26, 2013, 09:14:16 PM »
I think I "twiddled" something months ago when I was playing with the settings, as I can't get any optical drive to work :p

Thanks for the link!
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #544 on: August 27, 2013, 10:39:23 AM »
The slot load Panasonic drive, with the CF card set to "slave" and I can find them both...

Disconnect the wire to pin 28, which should set the dvd drive to slave (if it was cable select) and set the CF to master, and I get checksum errors when workbench tries to load...

I have to assume this drive is internally set to master, not cable select...

However, the new, tray load HP drive, doesn't seem to let workbench boot no matter the jumper settings....

:/ and workbench is all messy from various IDE CD software being installed, setup, and messed up :p
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #545 on: July 26, 2014, 07:28:06 AM »
Bought myself a 24 inch Dell 2405FPW today! Should support the Amigas native 15Khz sync frequency, plus it has composite, component, and svideo inputs for all my old gaming goodness!

Haven't actually bothered trying it with the Amiga yet though, I just hung it all my wall and am using it now...

Its a pretty old monitor, but I figured for $70 it was worth the money.
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #546 on: July 26, 2014, 03:11:38 PM »
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Bought myself a 24 inch Dell 2405FPW today! Should support the Amigas native 15Khz sync frequency, plus it has composite, component, and svideo inputs for all my old gaming goodness!

Haven't actually bothered trying it with the Amiga yet though, I just hung it all my wall and am using it now...

Its a pretty old monitor, but I figured for $70 it was worth the money.


Good find!  I bought one of these new around 2006, still using it today and it still looks great!  One of my better purchases.  Sadly it won't display 15khz in VGA mode even though it will display it via composite/svideo!  :(
 

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Re: My A500 "project" pics, details, build log?
« Reply #547 on: July 26, 2014, 11:01:36 PM »
Don't say that! :p
I'll have to plug in my Sega Mega Drive (via rgb), and see what happens...