A1200: new hard drive worked great, then didn't.

[rljacob]

I have a mostly stock Amiga1200 (with a Blizzard expansion board, AmigaOS 3.1) and thought it was finally time to replace the original internal hard drive.

I got a Hitachi IBM 30GB IDE 4200rpm 2.5in drive and installed it.  I made 2 partitions in the first 4GB (left the rest alone) installed everything and its been working great for about a week.

But just now when I turned on my Amiga, the orange hard drive light stays on, there are some disk noises, the screen is black, and eventually it asks me to put in the Workbench floppy.   When I boot from the floppy, it doesn't see the drive.

Any ideas?

[rljacob]

Its sitting on the same platform that the original drive used (see pic).  The holes for the screws didn't match up so I used some electrical tape to secure it.

It was working for a week without problems.

I'm going to put in a USB drive to see what my Mac thinks.  Then try to return it (90 day warranty).