Oh dear :( A1200 internal HD problem...

[dandelion]

Hi all,

Well, I recently bought myself an A1200 off the Bay, complete with 250meg 2.5" drive and ram expansion. All fine, no problems. Then...attempted to load Project X from a "blank" disk which came with the machine which failed to load and from then HD death! Specifically...

1) After reset from Project X instead of getting WB from the hard drive back it returned to the purple insert floppy screen.
2) Weird I thought. Shut everything down. Waited a minute, restarted, still purple screen.
3) Booted from WB floppy, early startup, no HD recognised.
4) Found disc with HDToolBox...couldn't make any "changes to the drive" but on reset it booted properly.
5) Then after that minor success it failed again. Tonight I dismantled, checked pins etc. cleaned contacts. Still nothing and drive not spinning at all. Tried it on a spare motherboard, didn't work first time but on playing with the cable got it to boot again.
6) Transferred back to EBay machine. Wouldn't boot. Swapped cable around again (I know this is back, with regards to power lines etc. but was getting desperate!)
7) Tried again on spare motherboard, couldn't get it to boot at all.

I'm thinking i've either killed the HD, or that basically it was dying and is now properly dead. Or perhaps it's a dodgy cable (i don't have a spare one unfortunately).

Any ideas?

[dandelion]

Hmmm...thanks for the advice guys! I'll probably try and buy a short 2.5" cable from Amigakit and give that a go to start with. Failing that a new drive too (250meg's a bit small anyway). Will let you know how it goes

[dandelion]

actung_bab wrote:
of topic l know what bbs software do u run.
and do still run bbs. here in new zealand far as l know
there arent any bbs around, l usded to run cnet 4 bbs software, l was going run it again as miss those days
l even remember running my bbs of a zip drive at one stage

 :roll:

The bbs hasn't been online for a couple of years now unfortunately, i moved away from the Amiga scene and haven't been posting here and forgot about my sig! I used to run Max's BBS 1.54 and Max's Pro 2 (commercial, but now released to Aminet). Max's BBS was a lot of fun, had it running on top of AmiTCP and Telser (unfortunately you can't use Miami) and it worked well. It was a bit slow however because i'd run it on an 020 1200 with dialup! Seems funny now in these very broadband days! I stopped it simply because I didn't have the time to devote to playing at that stage (still don't, just trying to ignore the guilt), also the Amiga scene gets to you after a while. It can be a bit cloying and immature if you know what I mean. Found solace in the RISC OS world for a couple of years (still no Windows PC here!)