Amiga 600 optical cd dvd rom install: Pics Inside!

[AmmoJammo]

I started this some time ago, but never really got it finished.

It should be noted that I had it working "as is" previously, but all the file names were being truncated.

Now its just "broken" and doesn't find the drive at all...

But I still set about redoing all the wiring, so the lid would actually close!

Original plan was a slot load drive, with just a slot routered into the back of the case... but I stuffed that up.

So I changed to a tray load, but couldn't get workbench to recognise that drive at all, so changed back to slot load.

I believe this dvd drive is hardware set to master, as a result, the compact flash is set to slave, and it seems to boot from this just fine...

Onto some pics!

Mmmm... melted plastic....




Not a lot of clearance at all.. I originally had an adapter that converter it to a 40pin full size IDE, with a separate power connector.... fail!




So today, I set about making a new cable, routing it as neatly as possible, and being a bit creative...


This meant removing the IDE connector, and power connector, and soldering the ribbon cable directly to the board...


Basically how the drive and cables sit once the drive is in place.


Mmmm.. clearance...


Oh, and the work area! Amiga 500 to the left, been used for parts, 286 laptop motherboard sitting ontop of the soldering stations, has battery damage I'm working on.


Flip top!


Which is handing for when you connect it all together, and realise it won't boot anymore... CF card master/slave jumper had gone dicky.


My $5, 19inch LCD monitor, complete with svideo input... lovely!


And this is how far the disc ejects from the drive...


Now.... the final step.... getting it to actually work... :laughing:

[guest7146]

Very nice!

I've always fancied an A600 to mod and I've periodically placed bids on Ebay but never managed to clinch the deal.

That's a proper electronics tinkerer's workbench as well - nice one.  Ahhhh the smell of leaded fluxy solder

PS: What's that bit of kit on the very far left edge of your work area pic?

[AmmoJammo]

Thanks!

I like the A600, because we had the A500 as kids..

But you can easily add a HDD, Svideo output, and cdrom drive all internally, for cheap!

I also plan to stack the extra 1mb of memory ontop of the memory on the motherboard, so I can put a DC-DC power supply in the trapdoor slot, and run this off a much smaller laptop power supply, as all my Amiga bricks are 2kg bricks!

[AmmoJammo]

PS: What's that bit of kit on the very far left edge of your work area pic?

The oscilloscope? (Picture taken on a different day)

[vince_6]

This is art!

[AmmoJammo]

This is art!

Thanks! Currently that's all it is, as it doesn't work! :roflmao:

[Wolfe]

Looks nice.  You can send it tome and I will see about getting it working . . . but, you wouldn't  get it back . . . LOL

[VingtTrois]

Magnific!

[AmmoJammo]

Looks nice.  You can send it tome and I will see about getting it working . . . but, you wouldn't  get it back . . . LOL

Annoyingly, it worked, once...
The machine was being a total pain, refusing to boot at all, it seemed to be in a constant reset loop, occasionally bringing up the kickstart screen...

And then, it presented a software error, rebooted, loaded workbench, mounted the cd rom drive... and no file names were truncated... :furious:

Restarted it, and it refused to mount the drive again...

Magnific!

Thanks! I'd seen some pretty average looking cdrom drive installs in Amiga 600's, so thought I'd post my pics to help other out who might be considering doing the same

[Retrofan]

If you don't mind I will use your 9th picture as wallpaper for my next AmiKit Real update . It looks marvellous with 256 colors and looks also nice with 16.

[AmmoJammo]

Be my guest!

[Wolfe]

@AmmoJammo

I'm no expert but it could be confused by your IDE cable . . .

[amiman99]

Nice work!

Here is my A1200 with internal CDROM mod done in 2009.
I used 4way buffered IDE splitter with IDEFix97 sw.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=48042

[AmmoJammo]

Nice work!

Here is my A1200 with internal CDROM mod done in 2009.
I used 4way buffered IDE splitter with IDEFix97 sw.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=48042

I came across that thread yesterday while looking for pics of something else Amiga related, looks good

What I have succeeded in doing today, is I've managed to make it so that if the CF card is plugged in, the Amiga refuses to do anything... :hammer:

I also managed to break the compact flash adapter... I think I ended up with two pins shorted on the CF socket...

ended up completely removing the socket, and resoldering it from scratch...

doesn't work still..

compact flash card still works in a PC, in winuae, and I also tried setting up an old 40gig ide drive in the Amiga, which it found, partitioned into two 4gig pieces, then failed to format....

maybe I broke the ide controller? maybe the 40gig drive doesn't work so well...

Anyway! it works even less now than it did yesterday..

[amiman99]

Sux, I hate when things break when you trying to make things better.

BTW, I'm using 4GB microdrive, a small HD inside CF card. Works very well.

I would try smaller HD, if you have one.