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Offline Darrin

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Re: A 2.5 HDD that Amiga's don't like!
« on: May 04, 2008, 11:59:56 PM »
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tokyoracer wrote:
Not really, I have a laptop but I don't fancy taking it appart. I'm quite sure it is ok just one that doesn't work on Miggies. Could be wrong mind.


Considering that I have a couple of large IDE drives in my office that have died, but look new from the outside, I wouldn't assume that an old drive from a car boot sale is OK.

I've never come across a laptop drive that hasn't worked on my Amigas (and I've tried around 10+).  The only problem I've had was a really old one that wouldn't spin up fast enough to be detected unless you either did a reset or cut the line to pin 1.

There's no telling how badly that drive has been treated or how many times it has been dropped.  ;-)
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