My miggY is a A1200 with HD+CD on an external box with its own PSU (the original 4X CD unit died, I replaced it with a CDRW burner that doesn't work anylonger on the PC (this is strange I know but I don't care). The name of this stuff was "IDE-A 3" sold by Hardital (Italian dealer))
The Hard Drive fitted is a Quantum Bigfoot 1280A (1.2Gig), 5.25''. It has always worked fine till '95 (when I bought it).
However when it is attached to the IDE bus of my miggY, the hard drive led is lit; it doesn't blink, it remains always on as the power led does.
I always assumed there was something broken inside the miggY. Yesterday I attached *only* the Amithlon's hard drive just for fun (to see 1000's errors like "this software requires Amithlon emulation to run!") and the led worked ok!!
So where's problem?
The led worked ok in first years the hard drive was attached.
The hard drive (the quantum of course) has its own led on the drive itself.
I really can't understand this...
Now I'm moving to a Seagate 1.7 Gig that seems to be "tolerated" by the led...
Also, does anyone know HOW make the Winner IDE works ?? the one on Amiga Hardware added lately... when I attach it, there's a blank screen with the hard drive blinking faster (with no HD attached, but makes no difference) - help please!
Sorry for the long post but it's just to let some people know something I experienced :!
/ipino
