Amiga 2000

[mrmoonlight]

NO! It is there to supply power TO the Hard Drive.

Hi I have a three inch cable female is that the one that goes between the two

[mrmoonlight]

:laughing:Interesting Card from your PhotoBucket site; have only a few relatives?
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LOL you have a good chuckle my friend lol

[danbeaver]

Three inches sounds right -- it is female-to-female; to the best of my knowledge, that is the only card with such an odd power (cable) arrangement.

[mrmoonlight]

Three inches sounds right -- it is female-to-female; to the best of my knowledge, that is the only card with such an odd power (cable) arrangement.

I have the short cable connected as pic and it goes in to the power connector on the hd,does that look ok,sorry could not get a good pic of where the other end is going but it is going into the 4 pin power on the hd

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Yes, that should work.  You plug the 4-pin connector on the board directly into the 4-pin connector on the hard drive, the shorter the cable the better.  As an alternative I believe you could power the hard drive directly from the A2000's PSU and plug NOTHING into the connector on the board, this is if you didn't have the special Female-to-Female cable.

[mrmoonlight]

Yes, that should work. You plug the 4-pin connector on the board directly into the 4-pin connector on the hard drive, the shorter the cable the better. As an alternative I believe you could power the hard drive directly from the A2000's PSU and plug NOTHING into the connector on the board, this is if you didn't have the special Female-to-Female cable.

 Thanks ever so much for all the help ,I do not have the monitor cable until
     sat so I cant try it properly but I did give a quick boot and she started and all the drives were working as I could see them flashing and hear them so hopefully all seems well ,again a huge thanks to every one ,best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Three inches sounds right -- it is female-to-female; to the best of my knowledge, that is the only card with such an odd power (cable) arrangement.

Thanks for persevering my friend ,I cant try the monitor until the cable arrives but she fired up and all the drives were doing there job so hopefully all is well ,I will let you know when monitor is connected ,but again many thanks ,very best wishes Brian.:laughing:

[mrmoonlight]

Hi the monitor cable came today ,so I installed that and fired the Amiga up ,the floppy is working ,not sure about the HD and I have a whiteish screen ,I have disconnected the hd cables ,just to see if I can get the boot screen and again nothing but white screen and after that I am running out of ideas ,Brian

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Remove all the cards and try again.  You should get the "Insert Workbench" disk, at least.  If you're using a 1084 or similar, you sure you have it set correctly?  Try via composite output, perhaps?

[mrmoonlight]

Remove all the cards and try again. You should get the "Insert Workbench" disk, at least. If you're using a 1084 or similar, you sure you have it set correctly? Try via composite output, perhaps?

Hi I do get a poor pic if I use composite output ,but it is very poor ,and I am sure every think is set ok as far as I can tell ,as for removing the cards there doesn't seem much more to remove ,but will take   anther look after work, thanks again, Brian.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

So it boots and you're able to see the Workbench screen when it's connected via composite cable? Are you sure whatever monitor you're using is working 100%?

[mrmoonlight]

So it boots and you're able to see the Workbench screen when it's connected via composite cable? Are you sure whatever monitor you're using is working 100%?

Hi yes I can see the workbench but it would not be possible to use it because of the poor picture,but I am only using the composite cable' and yes it booted fine.

The monitor is connected to two other Amiga computers by a switchable socket and work well,which I removed whilst testing the Amiga 2000 so that one was on its own, I have contacted the seller about the cable and he informs me that the cable was the original for the A2000 and really would be better if I had the other cable which is for the A2000 but has resistor's built in and is the latest one and may give better results ,thanks again, Brian.

[mechy]

Yes, that should work.  You plug the 4-pin connector on the board directly into the 4-pin connector on the hard drive, the shorter the cable the better.  As an alternative I believe you could power the hard drive directly from the A2000's PSU and plug NOTHING into the connector on the board, this is if you didn't have the special Female-to-Female cable.

Off the subject, but i see you keep saying "the shorter the better" on the scsi cable, on scsi1 the cable length is allowed to be 3 meters,so figure over 9feet is acceptable. I have used everything from 1ft to 7foot cables with tons of devices and they all work fine. SCSI 1 is quite forgiving and works well. proper termination is important on any scsi.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Off the subject, but i see you keep saying "the shorter the better" on the scsi cable, on scsi1 the cable length is allowed to be 3 meters,so figure over 9feet is acceptable. I have used everything from 1ft to 7foot cables with tons of devices and they all work fine. SCSI 1 is quite forgiving and works well. proper termination is important on any scsi.

I was referring to the 4-pin connector running power from the A2091 card to the drive.  Wouldn't you say "the shorter the better" on that, too?  Not to mention he's not going to want a 9' long cable coiled up inside his A2000, LOL!  :roflmao:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'm still having a really hard time figuring out what this user's problem is, anyway.  It sounds to me like his A2000 works fine, just he's received a dodgy video cable from some ebay seller.  IMHO I would just try the Amiga with one of the known-good cables from one of his other systems to verify it's working correctly.  This discussion on resistors in monitor cables came up in another thread, I've never seen anyone needing those.

Maybe I just need more coffee.  

[mrmoonlight]

So it boots and you're able to see the Workbench screen when it's connected via composite cable? Are you sure whatever monitor you're using is working 100%?

Hi I have the right skart cable installed now and have a fab pic of floopy drive pic, so put the install disc in and found its not recognising the hard drive lol so does that mean I need to buy another harddrive?

ps yes I did try one off my 1200 only I was not sure if I could do this ,but the other skart works ,but Nothing from the HD