Help indentify these components!

[Rivkid]

Hi all,

Ok the below pics are from inside my A1500. I don't really know what they are so any advice / ideas would be great as I really need to get a working HDD and CD drive in there.




These above are both ends of a connector used to connect harddisk to the hard drive controller. No idea what kind of connectors they are or what hard disk they will connect to.





The above are two ends of a second cable that also connects to the HD controller and HD. Again no idea what it is or what HD it fits.



The above looks like some kind of mod thats been added. Two solders to the main board wired together but with a connector in the middle to break/connect the link at will




The above looks like some kind of RAM board maybe? No idea..



The above is an AGA chipset board. I don't have an EGA monitor to test it. Anyone know if it will require software or not? If not I might buy an EGA - VGA cable and connect to my PC monitor.


Thanks for any help guys!

Pete

[Rivkid]

hi thanks for the welcome!

Its a 2090 - not sure who made them. Does that help? I believe this model doesn't autoboot.


EDIT

sorry I'm such a spaz - heres the pic

[Rivkid]

Man thats so helpful! I feel like I might have a chance of getting this all sorted now.

Not sure which kickstart is in it at the moment - when I turned it on last night I had no modulator (gave it to my brother last christmas) so waiting for new one to arrive.

My goal is to get a working HD and CD drive in - I'll be happy then. The CD drive is in but I seem to remember it wasn't working last time I tried it. Suspect it needs software. I've now downloaded dms files for the AGA card and the HDD controller so I'll have to port them over to the amiga and see if they work. Guess I'll need to find a scsi HDD somewhere too..


Thanks so much for the help. I only bought this at a whim on ebay last year for £40.00 - didn't know all this work would be needed lol!!

Pete

[Rivkid]

hey sounds like I got a good deal for £40 then? Can't believe that mem upgrade is so big!


I may try and find an old MFM HDD - I work in computers so its not that unthinkable that some of my contacts my have the odd one lying around. There is a CD drive and controller in already so if I can get that working great. If not then I'll go for a scsi controller and get new cd drive and hdd and go that route.


I've found a place I can buy a VGA - EGA cable so I can get this linked up to my pc monitor. That will be a great asset.

Man can't wait to get this all set up now.

FYI - its an Amiga 1500 not a 2000 with dual 3.5" floppes in the front (although they both need replacing really!)

[Rivkid]

Ok I've rethought this and I'm going to buy a 2091 card with a HDD already set up on ebay. Save me a lot of hassle and I can sell my 2090 card then (must be someone looking for one!)

Think my next move is to get the 2091 card installed then sort out the cd rom. Once thats done I'll get the AGA card working properly and replace the floppy drives. Actually - does anyone know if pc and amiga floppy drives have the same power connectors? Reason I ask is I need an extra floppy power connector in my amiga and best solution is one of these :



Reckon it'll work?


thanks to everyone - its been a great welcome to the forums!

[Rivkid]

Superb - things are coming together quite nicely. Should be quite a beastie when she's finished. Eventually the plan is to have this seated under my desk connected to my PC to enable me to download ADF files, drag them over and convert them to amiga disks (not piracy!! - I have stupid amounts of original games with faulty disks that I need to restore).

I hear the easiet way is null modem cable - I had hoped it would be possible to get a NIC card and network it (possibly adding internet access). What do you guys use?

[Rivkid]

reddwarfer wrote:
Darn!
I just sold a 20Mb MFM drive.

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

[Rivkid]

odin wrote:
The 1500 is merely a rebadged 2000, primarily marketed at 'home office' users if I am not mistaken. Here's a bit of history on the A1500.

yeah I'd read that - apparently if you peel the 1500 sticker off theres likely to be a 2000 sticker underneath - I'm not curious enough to ruin the finish finding out!

[Rivkid]

Well I've bid on a 2091 with a 52mb drive but if I don't win it yes I'll definitely be interested.

[Rivkid]

reddwarfer wrote:

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

Heh, I only asked £1 for it aswell!

dammit.

ah well I've bought this now :



2091 SCSI card. It has 2mb ram on board and a Quantum 52MB hard drive formatted with Amigados 1.3. SCSI chips v6.1

The extra 2mb RAM will be nice - can't wait to get it up and running woo!

[Rivkid]

murple wrote:
Wow, I haven't seen an MFM cable in years. You really do not want to use that. MFM drives are ancient, slow, big, pieces of {bleep}. Any one you find is going to be very old now and I wouldn't trust any unreplaceable data on one. If you find one cheap/free, maybe use it as a temporary thing, but long term you should find a SCSI or IDE controller.

The "AGA card" (god, I wish there were AGA add-ins for A2000s) is like other people said, a flicker fixer. Those are quite cool, as you can use a PC monitor and use interlace modes without getting a headache.

The RAM card does max out your Zorro bus, so, be careful about other cards you use. I got bit in the ass by that recently myself.

I've just found this in my drawer at work :



am I right in thinking this will connect that flicker fixer to a monitor? If it is man what are the odds of finding that lol!!

When you say max out the zorro what do you mean? My i/o cards will be ok won't they?