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Description: This is the board manufactured by Power Computing that allows one to use a standard PC drive High Density drive (came with a Sony drive) as an Amiga high-density drive. There is a small patch that needs to be run in the starup-sequence. I never was able to get this to function on my A2000, so it's unused. One thing that annoyed me about the board, is that PIN 1 of the connector for the ribbon cable is NOT MARKED on the board (therefore you have to guess which way the ribbon cable is supposed to go on). Picture Stats: Views: 1834 Filesize: 167.83kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: Ral-Clan at January 27, 2007, 10:48:16 PM Image Linking Codes
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| Ral-Clan Posts:1979 | January 15, 2008, 07:31:16 PM Quote Oh dear. Due to the lack of anti-static precautions, it may not work at all now, and if it does it could fail in some odd way when it feels like it Yes! Because I held it (for this photo) after taking it out of the anti-static bag it is now garbage. :crazy: I'd better throw it away! You do understand that humans have to actually TOUCH these things to install them into Amigas, right? Of course, I ground myself first. |
| Homer Posts:1166 | May 11, 2007, 09:35:46 PM Oh dear. Due to the lack of anti-static precautions, it may not work at all now, and if it does it could fail in some odd way when it feels like it :boohoo: |
| countzero Posts:1938 | May 04, 2007, 09:28:19 AM I found one of these installed at a A2000 I salvaged. It works as standard 880k mode, but I neder knew it could do HD so I never tried ! where can I find the patch ? |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | February 10, 2007, 07:07:02 PM I have the external one of these babes. If look carefully, all odd pins are ground (i.e. 1, 3, 5 ...33).:-D Mine, unfortunatelly, died (burn the XL chip). I convert it to a regular DD external drive.:-( |
| voxel Posts:322 | February 10, 2007, 01:32:53 PM Is there a squared shape pad for one of the extreme pins? if yes this is the Pin 1 for the cable ;-) |
| Ral-Clan Posts:1979 | January 28, 2007, 06:21:20 PM I don't want to sell it because I know one day it will prove useful - and if I sold it the chances of replacing it are almost nil. I'm pretty sure it works as a standard 880K drive from boot-up. |
| X-ray Posts:4370 
| January 28, 2007, 10:30:22 AM Does it operate at boot-up in 880k mode? If so, are you selling it by any chance ;-) |
| InTheSand Posts:1766 | January 28, 2007, 01:29:47 AM Looks like the same set of components as used in the external version, though the board is neater - I guess this was produced later? - Ali |