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Offline Zac67

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Re: How do you SPlit the A1200's Floppy Power connnector?
« Reply #14 from previous page: April 07, 2012, 05:54:34 PM »
One case of 'no problems' doesn't necessarily prove it's fine. You may have been lucky.
3.5" drives differ widely in power consumption. Without making sure the model at hand is (very) low power, it's not a good idea to hook it up to the floppy power - which reportedly doesn't tolerate somewhat higher power HDDs. So, general advice is "don't do it unless you know what you're doing". Enforcing the feeble line is a very good idea though. ;)
 

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Re: How do you SPlit the A1200's Floppy Power connnector?
« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2012, 08:53:03 PM »
Quote from: Zac67;687541
One case of 'no problems' doesn't necessarily prove it's fine. You may have been lucky.
3.5" drives differ widely in power consumption. Without making sure the model at hand is (very) low power, it's not a good idea to hook it up to the floppy power - which reportedly doesn't tolerate somewhat higher power HDDs. So, general advice is "don't do it unless you know what you're doing". Enforcing the feeble line is a very good idea though. ;)

Yes, that 1200 of mine is dead now. It caught fire...and I have no idea why.
Still, 6 years isn't bad is it? LOL.

...Only joking :biglaugh: