Adding a hd to an Amiga 600

[mrbill317]

I just won an auction for a nice 2.5" 4.0 gig hard drive
for my Amiga 600.

Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?

I know 3.5" drives need to have a 'Y' off the floppy drives power.

[Roondar]

A 2.5 inch HDD with the proper 2.5 inch HDD cable can be installed with just that cable and no others.

[Thomas]

Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?

Power is supplied through the 44 pin ribbon cable, you don't need an additional power connection.

Bye,
Thomas

[alexh]

Now you have to wonder if you have a HD cradle in your A600 (some do, some dont) and if the holes on your hard drive will line up or if you will have to use an elastic band.

[mrbill317]

I dont think theres a cradle. Ill have to figure something out

[orange]

you might need extra RAM, for large HDDs, esp. if you make several partitions.

[Lonewolf10]

Spare HD cradles can usually be found on ebay or:

http://www.amigadeals.co.uk


I was lucky. My A600 came with a cradle I have 1MB extra RAM in the trapdoor (total of 2MB RAM).


Not sure what you are on about with the alignment though? Mine appears to be ok.


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[CLS2086]

You can also pry to have the good kick that handle correctly the HDD !! (2.05)

[mrbill317]

Yeppers I have 2.05 roms and extra 1mb in trapdoor with clock.

When I bought my 600 it came with a hard drive already , a modified 3.5" to sit on top.
Figures during shipping the logic board got fubared.
I was able to order a replacement drive to move logic boards and hope it works.
Its only a gig'er but has adf2disk and stuff on it which I dont want to loose.

I just ordered a 4.1 gig laptop drive for inside and a 2.5" ribbon cable from apple to make connection short.

Next I will add 3.1 roms probably.