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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: lyrical80 on April 28, 2006, 01:20:22 PM
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My amiga 1200 does not detect my seagate 250MD HD directly connected to the 2,5 inch IDE op het moederbord
I suspect that a little fuser that broke off is the cause of this, but i am not sure. This fused is grey and black colored and has 100v written on it. Close up picture of this location at : http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/lyrical80/index.html
I will ofcourse fix this issue by soldering, but i would like to know if this could be the reason that no HD gets detected. My amiga runs normaly on a WB3.1 floppy disk.
Is it damaging my amiga if i run it without this fuser ?
Thanks for your input :idea:
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Hi! Welcome to a.org :-)
Did the Amiga detect the hard drive before the component was broken off?
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moto
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Hi Morolin !
Thank for your super quick response !!
I suspect that this fuse was pretty loose for a while, before it broke of, it was barely touched when it dropped. At that time i thought that my amiga did not work because of another reason. I have my amiga in a mirage tower with 6X Mediator, 4xIDE'99 and blizzard powerppc. So my amiga was pretty full up when it stopped working. Only when i did strip it totaly i discovered that the HD is not working.
lyrical80
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Hmmm well the component's proximity to the IDE interface does mean it's more likely to be part of the IDE interface's circuitry. I would avoid using it until you have replaced the component.
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moto
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thanks for you reply, i will follow your advise and by a soldering device tommorow, a good friend of mine can help me do it, he has more experience then me, thanks again for your help, have nice weekend and lots of amiga fun !!!
With kind amiga regards,
Lyrical80