Amiga 600 problems

[x56h34]

Ren,

The 40MB hard drive and the floppy drive are likely 10-12 years old.
They could be dead. Here are a few checks which you can do before
throwing in the towel:

Check the hard drive and floppy drive cables. The ones that connect
the particular device to the motherboard controller. Now, on the
motherboard itself, you should see a small marking with number "1",
next to the floppy and IDE controllers. That means pin 1 should be
oriented there (the red line on the floppy/hard drive cables).

Does it match? Pin 1 with red wire? Are the cables plugged in
correctly, and are making contact with controller pins? Any bent pins?
Cables look damaged?

[x56h34]

Your kickstart revision is fine. It has scsi.device (IDE controller device, yes, not SCSI) in the rom.

I suggest looking for another 2.5" hard drive, and while you're at it, get an A500/A600/A2000 3.1 rom too, and if you have the $$$, a high density floppy drive as a replacement for the faulty one would be nice too, but it's up to you. ;-)

There is a slight chance of the IDE controller being damaged, however there's also a huge chance of the 40MB hard drive just being on its last legs and not complying. It works in one Amiga, but not in the other...not impossible. Anyways, a bigger HD is a must (40MB is just way to small), so try and see.

I am confident that it will boot up, when installed.

Oh, and do you have 2.04 or 2.1 WB disks? You could try accessing HDToolBox and checking if Amiga detects the 40MB hard drive in it. Attach the hard drive to the IDE cable, insert the INSTALL disk (if you have it) in the floppy drive and turn on the system, and let it load the INSTALL disk.

[x56h34]

There are ways of adapting PCMCIA accessible hard drives with A1200
and A600, however the PCMCIA port is not autoboot capable.

HD floppy means high density floppy drive. Not only 880kb of space,
but double.

[x56h34]

Vesalia sell A500/A600/A1200 internal floppy drives. I think it's actually only 1 model, which is installable in all 3 mentioned Amigas. Brand type is Winner. I have one in my A600 and one in A1200, and I can confirm that Winner HD floppy works great.

[x56h34]

@jahc:

Finally, some recognition. :-) Thanks.