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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: TomJ on May 16, 2010, 01:58:19 AM

Title: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: TomJ on May 16, 2010, 01:58:19 AM: My nephew when he was younger picked up a used amiga 500 with a board mounted in it possibly spartan boot not sure the software progam he used for it was spartan boot. still looking for the board had a wire to the cpu

with it is a case with to hard drives and a board with a software solutions sticker and an adaptec chip ...

anyway anyone know what this is? without the extra board can it be hooked up to get to the old hard drives?
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: Tension on May 16, 2010, 02:03:13 AM: Doesn't look like an A500
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: tone007 on May 16, 2010, 02:08:09 AM: Looks like something that might hook up to an old MFM hard drive. I've seen adapters to hang what looked like PC compatible 8 bit MFM hard drive controllers off of the side of an A500. I threw a couple sets out recently, MFM isn't worth the trouble. That one also appears to be in need of some cleaning/oxidization removal, though it's hard to tell with those pictures.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: Plaz on May 16, 2010, 02:36:04 AM: Definitely looks like an MFM HD controller. Way long time ago there were do-it-yourself projects to connect such drives to Amigas. This may be a case of some homebrew hardware. http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/AHD

Funny I don't feel like a fossil... yet

Plaz
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: save2600 on May 16, 2010, 02:42:30 AM: I've got a 20mb MFM HD and a 2090 card if anyone "needs" it :) lol
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: joekster on May 16, 2010, 04:03:53 AM: I had one of these way back in the day. It is a scsi to mfm/rll bridge. It came with my cltd scsi controller. Sugest you ditch the board and hook up a scsi drive directly. I believe that there was "special" software used to configure and format thru the board.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: TomJ on May 16, 2010, 05:55:37 AM: i didn't think there might even be a scsi drive in it in can try that whit my dataflyer and see how i do unless somebody thinks i'll fry another amiga not something i want to do. is this other drive IDE or MFM whatever that is.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: B00tDisk on May 16, 2010, 06:00:46 AM: Quote from: TomJ;558765
i didn't think there might even be a scsi drive in it in can try that whit my dataflyer and see how i do unless somebody thinks i'll fry another amiga not something i want to do. is this other drive IDE or MFM whatever that is.

yeah that's definitely an MFM drive. Bin it.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: redrumloa on November 13, 2010, 11:51:52 PM: Quote from: B00tDisk;558766
yeah that's definitely an MFM drive. Bin it.

Well, I wouldn't bin it if it is good. Sell it to an even older computer user. Put it on eBay, might make some CP/M user happy.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: shaf on November 14, 2010, 12:35:01 AM: MFM (ST506) HDD's were extrememy unreliable especially the non Seagate products, Microscience and Miniscribe being the worse.
If you're having problems getting the Drive working list the Manufacturer and Model number and I'll give you the specs.
Title: Re: wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff
Post by: JimS on November 14, 2010, 05:05:17 AM: AC's Tech Journal ran an article on a homebrew scsi interface for the 500/1000 called the "Spartan" (Vol 2, #1). The article talks about using SCSI drives, or an Adaptec 5t506 to scsi adapter. I think you can get a pdf of the magazine from bomjack.