pete_pumpkin wrote:
Hello people, I picked up a Amiga 1200HD/40 at auction the other day, it was disasembled so I put it back to gether again. It has a 200meg laptop drive in it. The unit also has an accelerator card in it 'CSA Twelve Guage 1250'.
Welcome to the Amiga community I'm sure you will enjoy it. We're all very friendly here.
Link to the CSA 1250
http://planetcryo.com/amiga/csa12.html
Anyway I really don't know much about Amigas at all. My mate used to have an A500, whilst I had an AtariST. We forever argued about which was better. Obviously his was; with all the wicked games etc.
I'm really into PC and overclocking etc now.
I also picked up a cd disk with the unit, opening it up in windows 98, it shows over 600 megs worth of games. What I'd really love to do is to be able to play them.
The CSA card comes witha 25pin connector which is like the one a printer would use. I think this is a SCSI setup.
Can any one give me any advice on how to hook up a CD-rom, and would a SCSI-2 (50 pin)be ok. I've got an external cable which is a typical 'chunky' scsi at one end and a 25pin plug at the other. So I figure I'd get an external scsi drive and plug it in to the amiga. HMM, maybe a bit too much wishfull thinking 
, Would the Amiga pick the drive up? Or would I need a specific brand of drive.
The Amiga will work with any SCSI drive. Just needs a filesystem and a mountlist. Have a look in your DEVS folder in your boot partition. Maybe there is a mountlist in there already?
Get the filesystem from aminet -
http://ftp.plig.org/pub/aminet/disk/cdrom/AmiCDROM-1.15.lhaYou'll have to find out what the scsi device on your turbocard is called (maybe csascsi.device or so) and change the device = setting in the cd0 mountlist (or in the icon tooltype)
BTW If those games on the CD you talked about are ADF format you will have to write them back to floppy disk to actually play them on the Amiga.
Or is there another option?, inside the Amiga unit, it looks like someone has soldered a 'molex' power connector from the power socket. Could I use this in turn with the internal mini ide cable (looks to have a second channel on it, and might need a laptop adaptor ) to run a typical ide cdrom. Again would it be recognised.
The A1200 has only 1 IDE channel (PIO mode 0) and you can connect two devices to it (Hard drive as master, CDROM as slave) but you'll need to get IDEFIX from Aminet and use that to use an ATAPI CD drive.
Sorry for all the questions 
but I still have more
There are a couple of problems as far as I know with the unit. The internal floppy comes up with DF0:
? when a disk is inserted. It also makes a constant tick.....tick.....tick.... noise. Is it stuffed? I've tried an external setup and it reads the disks ok. Could I replace the internal unit with a A500 internal unit? Or is maybe my onboard floppy controller dead?
Sounds like a duff drive. An A500 one will work but is the wrong size to fit in the case so you'd have to cut away some of the plastic.
Well that's about it from me for now, I hope some one can help me out.
One last thing, How do I reset the unit without turning the power off, is there a combination of keys I need to press etc?
Ctrl+Amiga+Amiga
Thanks,
Pete
