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Description: I had a few minutes to play today so I grabbed a WD 80GB SATA drive and connected it to my 4000D using a Manhattan IDE-to-SATA adapter. The system recognized it (had to allow SetPatch to update scsi.device) but gave an "Error 4" when trying to install. I'll play with it again sometime.
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| LoadWB Posts:2901 | March 18, 2012, 06:47:51 PM Thanks. I've never been arsed to get WinUAE set up and running. Mostly because I have a working set of real Amiga hardware. I bet it would be much faster to format a large drive on a WinUAE PC, but the wait is part of the nostalgia, I suppose  |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | April 25, 2009, 04:56:43 AM Just an advice: use WinUAE to setup the drive then use the SATA adaptor on the A4000. Worth a try. ;-) |
| LoadWB Posts:2901 | April 04, 2009, 05:36:06 AM It turned out that the hard drive was indeed bad. That probably explains the "Error 4". I need to get off my lazy arse and get it RMA'd with Western Digital before the warranty expires. |
| LoadWB Posts:2901 | May 18, 2008, 09:58:27 AM Sorry, no new info. I haven't had the free time to experiment again. As soon as I do, I'm going to post in the forum as to my success or failure. I'm sure there's many folk out there who'd love to drop a cheap 80GB SATA drive in their 4000. I also want to play with a SCSI-to-IDE or SCSI-to-SATA adapter. *THAT'S* where the performance would live: CS MK-III with a large SATA drive attached -- sweet. Additionally, I'd like to try a 2.5" IDE-to-SATA converter for inside a 1200 or 600. The technology isn't all that difficult to keep up with :-) This would be a Sunday project, I think, sometime down the road. Next few weekends are claimed by other activities, then I get one weekend to myself, then another gone. Sheesh. As for the PSU, it's just a generic Mini-ATX PSU I picked up from my local hardware vendor. It puts out 135W (IIRC, maybe 145W) and I use an ATX PSU converter from AmigaKit. The keylock is my power switch, until I can find a better way to hook one up that won't scar my 4000. I thought about putting the ATX guts inside the 4000 PSU case, but I like the additional clearance that the mini PSU gives my drive stack (especially SCSI CD-ROMs, which are generally longer than IDE drives.) And for that, I've been thinking that as far as performance is concerned, an IDE CD-ROM is no big deal, really. I have a few IDE CD-RWs that I could pop in this machine. ::shrugs:: Eh. :-D |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | January 23, 2008, 07:29:22 PM Any new info about this hack? BTW: did you use a Compaq Presario PSU? |
| tokyoracer Posts:1590 | December 12, 2007, 04:20:06 PM Neat idea, nice one. :-) |
| LoadWB Posts:2901 | December 12, 2007, 07:02:43 AM Thanks. Sorry for the double-posted pic. When I first put it up I had no indication that the system had actually accepted it. Anyway, ideally I would like to have a real piece of metal back there rather than the cardboard. But this does keep the system fairly well sealed so there is ample air flow to keep everything cool. The air out the back is quite warm! [EDIT]: BTW, I use the keyboard lock on the front as my ATX power switch :-D |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | December 12, 2007, 03:59:32 AM Nice PSU hack you have done! |