A1000 and adIDE2 help

[n9uxu]

Greetings!  I'm trying to install a hard drive in my A1000.  I have the ICD adIDE kit and an IBM Travelstar (2.5") 6 gig drive from an old laptop.  The system boots fine with the adIDE and cable installed, but as soon as I try and boot with the drive plugged into the cable, the machine won't boot...the bios won't even post.  The red power led comes up, but the screen stays black.  I tried jumpering +5 volts from the diode behind the parallel port to pin 49 of the 68000 to be sure that there was sufficient power to the drive, but it did not help.  Any thoughts/info/insights would be appreciated.

Dave

[n9uxu]

I thought it might be too large, but I wouldn't have thought that too large a drive would prevent the bios from posting.  I'll have a look around and see if I can find a smaller 2.5" drive.

Dave

[n9uxu]

Ugh...been building/repairing too many pc's lately...I assure you that I have linux (SuSE) on every intel box I own (though the one has windows as well for gaming...).

If it helps, I had to creatively alter my college computer desk to make room for my first amiga...it was too long for the hutch as it was an a1000, starboard II, and sidecar 1060 (with 10MB hard drive!).  I actually had installed a csa accelerator in that box, but had to remove it because the 1060 was so timing dependent that the accelerator effectively killed it.  My next amiga was an A500 with the Bodega Bay expansion chassis (again, too big for the desk!).  Several 2000s followed...never had a 4000 though...and I kinda want an AmigaOne or Pegasos...but man are they pricey...

Regardless, I'll try a smaller drive (just picked one up off ebay) and see if that helps.

Dave

[n9uxu]

Did you remove the A1000 shielding to make room for a 3.5 inch drive or is there enough squeeze room?

Dave

[n9uxu]

Okay...I was in the Bay Area on a consulting gig, so I stopped in HSC and picked up a 1 gig hard drive.  I installed it in the A1000 and the AdIDE partionning software crashed each and every try.  While the manual said up to 2 gig partitions were fine, I went ahead and tried splitting it in two....bingo...A1000 hard drivey goodness!  Installed Battle Chess and can now play without endless floppy seek times.  Of course, having the two partitions mounted seems to chew up about 420k extra memory...which seems a bit much....but it works, and I'm sure I can find a Starboard II somewhere...

Dave