Installing HD in A600

[BGary335]

Hi all! I just got an A600 (a regular one, no HD) and I've decided to put an HD in it. I received the drive and cable today, but seem to be having some trouble. When I connect the HD to the motherboard and power the system on I get nothing but a black screen. Then, if I turn the cable over and plug it in the other way, the system doesn't come on at all, but rather just makes some clicking sounds.

Is there more to installing a HD in an A600 than just connecting it to the board? It is currently not jumpered. Does it have to be? I haven't tried installing an HD on an A600 before, so I'm clueless.

For information purposes, my A600 has the 37.350 Kickstart ROM. The HD I'm trying to install is 4GB.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[BGary335]

Thanks for your reply Alex!

Now that you've mentioned it, I wonder too if the hard drive might be dead. When I power the system on I don't hear any noise from it at all. I would think I'd hear SOMETHING. The HD is a Fujitsu MHF2043AT. It arrived to me simply in a Bubble mailer. It was not in any sort of static proof bag or anything. So it likely is dead I guess.

I cannot, unfortunately, test the drive on a PC laptop because I don't have one.  

[BGary335]

Thanks guys for your replies.I'm not going to make any hasty conclusions though. I'm going to see if I can pick up another HD and give it a try before concluding that the IDE controller is fried. Given that the hard drive I have now makes NO noise whatsoever, it seems likely to me that it is dead. And its been that way since the first time I plugged it in, so I don't think my little cable flip flop did it.

It does still boot without the HD connected, so I would assume that any damage done was minor.

[BGary335]

Aha! The drive booted! I don't know ifI had the cable in wrong or what, but whatever the problem was its evidently fixed!