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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: bilko9070 on December 15, 2005, 01:13:29 PM

Title: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: bilko9070 on December 15, 2005, 01:13:29 PM

I just won this hard drive on ebay for £1.70 with the intention of putting it in my amiga once my 2.5" cable arrives.

Its a 2.5" 2.1gb IBM travlestar.

(http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/430/121500388li.jpg)

However looking at the pins on it, it seems 4 of the pins (on the left in that pic) are set to the side a little, but when i looked at the picture of a 2.5" hard disk cable there is not gap on the plug it seems.
Have i baught a unusable drive?  Just wondering.

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: bilko9070 on December 15, 2005, 01:17:29 PM

btw, this is the first 2.5" laptop drive i have ever seen so forgive if this is a `noob` question!

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: amigakit on December 15, 2005, 01:18:18 PM

The cluster of 4 pins are the jumper pins for setting master/slave/cable select.  Usually on the Amiga, these are not needed.  Make sure you don't plug the 44-way IDE cable (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=2.5) over the cluster, and ensure it is the right orientation when plugged over the 44-pins.

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: bilko9070 on December 15, 2005, 01:25:45 PM

So thats ok then!  Thanks, my mind can rest! :-)

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: amigakit on December 15, 2005, 01:55:13 PM

No problem.

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: Effy on December 15, 2005, 01:56:35 PM

Just make sure that your boot partition is not bigger than 2 Gb !! It must be smaller, 1,9 will do !!

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: _ThEcRoW on December 15, 2005, 02:26:00 PM

I thought that 2,5 drives fit perfectly on the internal port of a 1200. Were the 3,5 ones that needed and adaptor or such?
So a laptop 2,5  drive should fit in directly withouth problem.

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: Effy on December 15, 2005, 02:30:21 PM

The difference between a laptop and an A1200 is that in a laptop you usually use a cradle where the 2,5" sits whereas in an A1200 you need a 2,5"-to-2,5" cable ...

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: lauri_t on December 15, 2005, 02:39:13 PM

You must plug the cable so that Pin 1 on the motherboard goes to Pin 1 on the hard disk! Otherwise the +5v will go to the wrong place and may result in smoke.

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: bilko9070 on December 15, 2005, 02:46:41 PM

there are no pin numbers on the back of the hard drive but am i right to assume that the cable will line up using the notch in the middle of the plug like on a 3.5" drive?

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: bilko9070 on December 16, 2005, 02:17:26 PM

Could anyone clarify which would be pin1 on the back of the hard drive?  I dont want to plug it in till im sure!

......................  ..
......................  ..
1                    

Is the above correct?

Title: Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
Post by: motrucker on December 17, 2005, 08:40:46 AM

Quote

lauri_t wrote:
You must plug the cable so that Pin 1 on the motherboard goes to Pin 1 on the hard disk! Otherwise the +5v will go to the wrong place and may result in smoke.

may result in smoke.? How 'bout sure thing - it will burn up that cable in a heartbeat (at the very least).

Don't mean to scare anyone, but if you've been there, you know what I mean.