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Swapping drives
« on: November 22, 2002, 08:24:20 AM »
Ive just bought an A1200 with a dead internal floppy(external drive works fine) Can I swap it for my A500 internal drive???
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2002, 08:41:56 AM »
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2002, 12:29:38 PM »
I may keep the drive external if the cable is long enough and hope that it doesnt cause any problems, This A1200 seems to have another glitch sometimes when I switch it on the screen is blank (no animated floppy) if i hold down the left Amiga key and the left mouse button the boot screen appears.
Could this be related to the floppy fault??

Where can i get cheap hardrive cable from??
Will a Toshiba laptop hardrive work with A1200??
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2002, 12:53:25 PM »
I remember something about the cable being cut a pin 1. Directions would be useful!
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2002, 03:25:17 PM »
Does anyone have a spare Amiga cable with a diagram for installation??

If not i will try and get one from eyetech, but not sure from there web site which is the correct cable??
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2002, 10:41:52 AM »
Going back to the orignal topic of this thread, swapping A500 DF0 FOR A1200 DFO is notgoing to well.

I seem to remember someone changing the df1 to df0 on there Amiga 1200. Help?
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2002, 01:04:45 PM »
Has anyone got any jumper schematics??

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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2002, 03:45:13 PM »
[color=993300]HELP!!!!!!!!![/color][/b]
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2002, 01:25:30 PM »
Can  I get a longer floppy drive cable, Ive seen some on the uk Eyetech site, but I dont know the specs of the cable that i need.

Thanks tesral :-D
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Re: Swapping drives
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2002, 07:44:31 PM »
Thanks to everyone here at the org, youve been all been most helpful. Gonna leave it outside the case for the moment.

I found it far too difficult to get the A500 drive into the A1200(yes I did take the outer casing off)

Thanks  :-D
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