A1200 tower

[Mosher]

Hi ppl

I've been out of the amiga community for quite some time, but have dusted off my A1200. The 1200 is mounted in a tower, with an ATX PSU and keyboard adapter, working quite well.

To my disappointment, i can't get my floppy to work, it might be dead. I've tried quite a bit with the cable and removing the blizzard PPC and bvision card it was running on back in the days.
I even bought Amiga OS 4.1 classic edition from Hyperion, they even sent me a floppy. But turns out it can't boot.

I can't seem to find the df0: in the early startup menu.

As i said, it's been quite a while since i've done serious amiga stuff, so i have forgotten many thing, but i want my kids to see what i was doing pre-internet.

The 1200 have both a HDD and SCSI cd-rom, but the HDD won't boot, but it is spinning.
Need a bit of advice on how to get my 1200 up and running. Is it wise to buy a GoTek so that i can get started? I want to eventually install the OS on my HDD and run things from there.

Please advise on how to proceed.

Mosher

[Mosher]

Hi

Thanx for the advise, i would very much like to use floppy and later get to use the HDD for workbench etc. Having a working floppy is also great for demos and games, which i have lot of on CD's.

Apart from that, if you boot your amiga, and press both mouse buttons, should you get the option to boot from df0 if the floppy is working?

Yes, i was quite active in the demoscene. Was in a couple of groups here in norway and was present a TG quite a few times.
Hung out quite a lot with fellow amigans from my area which started Razor 1911, they are close friends today. Those were the days.

Mosher

[Mosher]

Hi

Yes, several times as these things are possible to mount the wrong way.
The system rarely hangs, but i can see the feedback on the LED on the drive when it's mounted the wrong way.

This being said, the amiga starts normally bringing me to a purple-ish page with a picture of the familiar hand and floppy (this being rom 3.0).
I can hear the familiar sound from the floppy, this ticking every other second or so.
After inserting the disk, a few scratching noises that sounds like read error, and i get the error saying "not a DOS disk in DF0".
I using the Hyperion boot disk for OS 4.1.
If i turn the cable around, the LED on the floppy is solid green and it will not try to read the disk.

Sounds like the drive is working, but it won't communicate with the disk or the computer. But the read head might be damaged for all i know.

Mosher

[Mosher]

OS4.1 vs 3.9 is not the issue yet, as i've not had the chance to get anything working yet.
I might have a different PSU laying around, will have a look at that and do some tests.
Might as well try to remove the PPC and BVision just for the test aswell.

The disk drive sounds like it did in the old days, but are considering buying a new from the link i was sent, as the price wasn't that bad.

Thx guys

Mosher