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Resurrecting an A590...
« on: February 26, 2004, 11:04:26 AM »
Hi guys,

We've just resurrected an original A500 (and we're talking rev. 5, Kickstart 1.2 - the works. It even has a C= symbol in place of the left Amiga key) and its A590.

We got the A500 to boot - reluctantly! The boot disk was a little old, and of course no autobooting with KS1.2... The A590 is connected and whirs correctly. However, when the A500 tries to mount it the head seems to step for a while, and then stops.. we're then treated to about 20 beeps from the hard disk (sounds like a piezo buzzer).

Anyone got any clues as to what to do? We'd like to get the info off this massive 20MB if we can....

Thanks!
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