After a HD 'crash' around 2003 put my towered Amiga out of business, which then led me down the PC route, I managed some years later to resurrect the HD and copy all the stuff of it to the PC, but in the process of removing the HD etc.. I ended up semi-gutting the Tower and even with the HD back the thought of putting it all back together was too daunting at the time (circa 2008), I was just happy to get my files back.
However, I recently dug out all the pieces and am going to give it a shot to get it back up, it's a good system; Eyetech tower with A4000 keyboard adapter, Blizzard 240mhz 603e/040 w/Bvision, IDE Fix and a few other nice bits, it's been a bit of a journey just to try to identify all the stuff I bought and installed circa 1998.
The problem is that for the life of me I can't find the extra long floppy cable that connected the floppy drive to the motherboard, so here is my question:
I jacked a PC floppy drive cable and noticed that it's twisted at one end, I read about that and am of the belief that it won't work as is for what I want, however, if I unclasp the connector and untwist the piece that's twisted and put it back together again, will this solve the problem?
Once I get this part resolved, it will be time to start reassembling the machine and see if it will power up. I do have a Surf Squirrel that connected to a SCSI CD Rom, but I'm thinking of losing that and mounting a spare DVD Burner that I have and possibly selling the Surf Squirrel to fund a wifi ethernet solution to get my machine hooked up to the network and the net.
BTW; before it gets mentioned, I know that there are CF Floppy replacements which look great, but I do want to be able to run my games, and I have a bunch of floppies with other stuff on them, then maybe at a later point doing all that and getting a replacement solid state HD with WHDload etc... My main goal is to just get it up and running at this point so there is still a hill to climb
