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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mrbill317 on July 04, 2006, 03:18:19 PM

Title: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: mrbill317 on July 04, 2006, 03:18:19 PM

I just won an auction for a nice 2.5" 4.0 gig hard drive
for my Amiga 600.

Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?

I know 3.5" drives need to have a 'Y' off the floppy drives power.

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: Roondar on July 04, 2006, 03:22:33 PM

A 2.5 inch HDD with the proper 2.5 inch HDD cable can be installed with just that cable and no others.

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: Thomas on July 04, 2006, 03:23:28 PM

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Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?

Power is supplied through the 44 pin ribbon cable, you don't need an additional power connection.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: alexh on July 04, 2006, 03:25:52 PM

Now you have to wonder if you have a HD cradle in your A600 (some do, some dont) and if the holes on your hard drive will line up or if you will have to use an elastic band.

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: mrbill317 on July 04, 2006, 03:32:07 PM

I dont think theres a cradle. Ill have to figure something out

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: orange on July 04, 2006, 05:41:47 PM

you might need extra RAM, for large HDDs, esp. if you make several partitions.

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: Lonewolf10 on July 04, 2006, 09:55:18 PM

Spare HD cradles can usually be found on ebay or:

http://www.amigadeals.co.uk


I was lucky. My A600 came with a cradle :) I have 1MB extra RAM in the trapdoor (total of 2MB RAM).


Not sure what you are on about with the alignment though? Mine appears to be ok.


Regards,
Lonewolf10

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: CLS2086 on July 05, 2006, 11:11:45 AM

You can also pry to have the good kick that handle correctly the HDD !! (2.05)

Title: Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Post by: mrbill317 on July 05, 2006, 01:08:30 PM

Yeppers I have 2.05 roms and extra 1mb in trapdoor with clock.

When I bought my 600 it came with a hard drive already , a modified 3.5" to sit on top.
Figures during shipping the logic board got fubared.
I was able to order a replacement drive to move logic boards and hope it works.
Its only a gig'er but has adf2disk and stuff on it which I dont want to loose.

I just ordered a 4.1 gig laptop drive for inside and a 2.5" ribbon cable from apple to make connection short.

Next I will add 3.1 roms probably.