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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: theformula on July 02, 2008, 07:08:10 PM
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Hi I am attempting to get an ide fix express working on my A1200. I have installed os 3.9 on my harddisk. I have tired to boot with the ide adapter not connected to gayle and it works fine but when I connected to the gayle adapter (with both jumpers) I boot after some time and get insert disk screen. Then I boot from floppy disk and my hard drive is not show. I am using a 2.5 inch drive from amigakit would this be the problem? I have considered formatting the drive but i dont wanna loose everything.
I have been trying to get this to work for ages and I cannot find any other posts on it anywhere (apart from me :lol: ) and I lost the instructions :cry:
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Tried disabling the scsi.device update?
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What happens if you remove the jumpers? Does it boot ok?
I've had problems and it turned out that my HD was too old to support the advanced PIO modes.
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This is the hard disk I have http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=277&osCsid=9760bbef13f747add1db7eb3a70c1843
@ DoctorQ
Sorry I am a bit of a Noobie how would I do that :-P
@ AmigaMance
It boots withouts jumpers but only to insert disk screen
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It boots withouts jumpers but only to insert disk screen
Then it doesn't boot. The definition of booting you have in your mind is wrong.
Anyhow, i can't think of what goes wrong. I would have said you to check the lenght of the IDE cable, but in your case it shouldn't be this, as you are using an internal HD.
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i am thinking I might grab a 3.5 one off my mate and see if it works. I will just keep trying loads I dont mind as I can shove this 2.5 hd into another miggy.