Help indentify these components!

[Rivkid]

Hi all,

Ok the below pics are from inside my A1500. I don't really know what they are so any advice / ideas would be great as I really need to get a working HDD and CD drive in there.




These above are both ends of a connector used to connect harddisk to the hard drive controller. No idea what kind of connectors they are or what hard disk they will connect to.





The above are two ends of a second cable that also connects to the HD controller and HD. Again no idea what it is or what HD it fits.



The above looks like some kind of mod thats been added. Two solders to the main board wired together but with a connector in the middle to break/connect the link at will




The above looks like some kind of RAM board maybe? No idea..



The above is an AGA chipset board. I don't have an EGA monitor to test it. Anyone know if it will require software or not? If not I might buy an EGA - VGA cable and connect to my PC monitor.


Thanks for any help guys!

Pete

[odin]

Which make of HD controller do you have in there?
-edit
Welcome to a.org =).

[Rivkid]

hi thanks for the welcome!

Its a 2090 - not sure who made them. Does that help? I believe this model doesn't autoboot.


EDIT

sorry I'm such a spaz - heres the pic

[odin]

Clickety-click and clickety-click.
Try browsing both sites for your other cards, they have loads of info =).

Here's some info on that Microway AGA-board, it's a flickerfixer apparently.

Also, which kickstart do you have in that beast and can you boot into Workbench using floppies?

[Rivkid]

Man thats so helpful! I feel like I might have a chance of getting this all sorted now.

Not sure which kickstart is in it at the moment - when I turned it on last night I had no modulator (gave it to my brother last christmas) so waiting for new one to arrive.

My goal is to get a working HD and CD drive in - I'll be happy then. The CD drive is in but I seem to remember it wasn't working last time I tried it. Suspect it needs software. I've now downloaded dms files for the AGA card and the HDD controller so I'll have to port them over to the amiga and see if they work. Guess I'll need to find a scsi HDD somewhere too..


Thanks so much for the help. I only bought this at a whim on ebay last year for £40.00 - didn't know all this work would be needed lol!!

Pete

[Tahoe]

The connectors you have there are MFM/RLL interface connectors for (very old) hard drives. The A2090 controller you have was made to primarely support these drives. It does have a SCSI port but is really isn't of much use.

If you want to fit her up with SCSI hard drives and a CD-Rom drive you will need another type of controller. An A2091 would be a good bet.

The memory expansion is THIS ONE. It looks like it is populated to the full 8MB, thing you should keep in mind when going for a SCSI controller: take one without any extra RAM as your A2000 has as much ram as it can handle, apart from adding a accelerator board.

The cable you see there looks more like a fuse to me, and the fact that the two cables are soldered both very close to an external connector would make sense. Probably a fuse was blown on that port, and the previous owner replaced it with a rather large one!

And you have a so called Flicker Fixer! Nice, this means you can connect a standard PC VGA monitor.

[Rivkid]

hey sounds like I got a good deal for £40 then? Can't believe that mem upgrade is so big!


I may try and find an old MFM HDD - I work in computers so its not that unthinkable that some of my contacts my have the odd one lying around. There is a CD drive and controller in already so if I can get that working great. If not then I'll go for a scsi controller and get new cd drive and hdd and go that route.


I've found a place I can buy a VGA - EGA cable so I can get this linked up to my pc monitor. That will be a great asset.

Man can't wait to get this all set up now.

FYI - its an Amiga 1500 not a 2000 with dual 3.5" floppes in the front (although they both need replacing really!)

[odin]

The 1500 is merely a rebadged 2000, primarily marketed at 'home office' users if I am not mistaken. Here's a bit of history on the A1500.

[reddwarfer]

Darn!
I just sold a 20Mb MFM drive.

[Dandy]

Rivkid wrote:

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I may try and find an old MFM HDD - I work in computers so its not that unthinkable that some of my contacts my have the odd one lying around. There is a CD drive and controller in already so if I can get that working great.
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You should keep in mind that once you got an MFM- or RLL-HD, you still need sofware to operate it.

I had a selfmade HD solution for my A500 ('ct-interface offering one PC/XT slot, where I plugged in an OMTI RLL controller with two 65mB-RLL-HDs connected to it) and I used "BOIL3" software to operate it.

If you dont have such software, you might feel the need to write me an PM, as I don't think you still can get it somewhere nowadays...

[Rivkid]

Ok I've rethought this and I'm going to buy a 2091 card with a HDD already set up on ebay. Save me a lot of hassle and I can sell my 2090 card then (must be someone looking for one!)

Think my next move is to get the 2091 card installed then sort out the cd rom. Once thats done I'll get the AGA card working properly and replace the floppy drives. Actually - does anyone know if pc and amiga floppy drives have the same power connectors? Reason I ask is I need an extra floppy power connector in my amiga and best solution is one of these :



Reckon it'll work?


thanks to everyone - its been a great welcome to the forums!

[reddwarfer]

Yup, its a standard floppy driver power connector, it'll work fine.

[Rivkid]

Superb - things are coming together quite nicely. Should be quite a beastie when she's finished. Eventually the plan is to have this seated under my desk connected to my PC to enable me to download ADF files, drag them over and convert them to amiga disks (not piracy!! - I have stupid amounts of original games with faulty disks that I need to restore).

I hear the easiet way is null modem cable - I had hoped it would be possible to get a NIC card and network it (possibly adding internet access). What do you guys use?

[Rivkid]

reddwarfer wrote:
Darn!
I just sold a 20Mb MFM drive.

Gah!! Who to? Whats they're address lol!!

[Rivkid]

odin wrote:
The 1500 is merely a rebadged 2000, primarily marketed at 'home office' users if I am not mistaken. Here's a bit of history on the A1500.

yeah I'd read that - apparently if you peel the 1500 sticker off theres likely to be a 2000 sticker underneath - I'm not curious enough to ruin the finish finding out!