Amiga 600 optical cd dvd rom install: Pics Inside!

[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.

[AmmoJammo]

Tried a 4.3gig 3.5inch ide drive. partioned and formatted fine. Simply copied all the files from a workbench disc onto the drive, and it booted up quickly with no issues. So the ide controller is fine. I've ordered some new compact flash adapters.

[Chartus]

You have it set like this.

CD drive-------MB-------CF

Might try this way.

MB------CF------CD drive

I know that back in the day connecting the Mb to the middle of the cable caused all kind of problems for PC clones

Just my opinion.

[AmmoJammo]

Its a definite possibility that the order matters... but I can't find any hard evidence to suggest that it actually does...

Right now, it won't even boot from the compact flash with no cd rom connected...

[cycloid]

Great job. Back around '02 / '03 I put an A1200 in an A500 case and used the extra space to put in a slim DC drive in place of the floppy, Midi adapter, accelerator, scandoubler etc. Don't have it any more (sold it to someone in Australia in '04, postage was £80!) but must have photos on an old CDR somewhere.

[danbeaver]

The issue may be clarified with better ATAPI support using the ELBOX buffered interface and IDEFix97 software; these have made easy work for me accessing CD/DVD drives on a 1200.

[cycloid]

Here we go, pictures are from 2002, bit blurry, think they were scanned from a film camera!

http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga0.jpg
http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga1a.jpg
http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga2a.jpg

specs were
16mb
25MHz 040
internal CD drive
internal 1.3GB HD
internal flicker fixer/scandoubler
internal midi interface

[AmmoJammo]

Here we go, pictures are from 2002, bit blurry, think they were scanned from a film camera!

http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga0.jpg
http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga1a.jpg
http://thedecibelkid.com/junk/amiga2a.jpg

specs were
16mb
25MHz 040
internal CD drive
internal 1.3GB HD
internal flicker fixer/scandoubler
internal midi interface

Its all very... red! nice :p

I've currently got this dvd rom drive working...

However, I'm not using the CF card (really just a test)

40gig 2.5inch IDE drive, two 4gig partitions.

Drive formatted through Winuae, Classic Workbench copied through Winuae.

Hard drive set as slave, dvd drive set as master, using the same cable I  was using on the CF card (yes, both drives are being powered by the ide  header )

Now, I've just installed IDEFix97, which at first wouldn't find the dvd drive, but did the second time I ran it..

CD rom drive worked...

However, IDEFix would never run with the CF card and adapter, it would crash before it installed the drive...

Copied some files from a cd to the HDD... seems very slow, but then, I am probably used to my Amiga 500 setup...

So, when the new CF adapter arrives, I might try copying the setup as is, from this ide drive, to the compact flash, and see what happens...

[paul1981]

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

Had to laugh... as soon as I read this comment on his Workbench I immediately scrolled up and had another look at his Workbench screen and saw nothing special about it at all. Infact I thought "it's dull, boring and just plain wrong" (4 colour mode etc). Then the penny dropped. :rolleyes:

[AmmoJammo]

Had to laugh... as soon as I read this comment on his Workbench I immediately scrolled up and had another look at his Workbench screen and saw nothing special about it at all. Infact I thought "it's dull, boring and just plain wrong" (4 colour mode etc). Then the penny dropped. :rolleyes:

What you can't see in the pics, is that the ceiling is only about 6 foot high, and there's two 36watt fluro tubes mounted less than 3 foot above the bench... its bright!

[AmmoJammo]

I ended up getting this working... although I don't recall the details..

However! the A600 is back/still on the bench!

The idea now, is to add a DC-DC power supply internally, to run the A600 off an external, 19volt, laptop power supply.

The only PSUs I have are the A500 bricks! Which kinds defeats the purpose of the compactness of the A600!



Oh, and I was repairing an amplifier, that had some warm resistors inside it... left it on while I went to get Hungry Jacks... so used it to keep my fries warm while eating my burger ^_^

[Iggy]

Hopefully Hungry Jack's doesn't substitute Roo meat for beef (a perpetual rumor about the chain's licensee Burger King).

[kickstart]

Where can i purchase one of this dvd portable conector to IDE adapters?

[giZmo350]

@kickstart

This is the one I used... with audio connector too...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Slimline-CD-DVD-ROM-to-40-Pin-IDE-Adapter-/170950610516?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cd734e54

This is a real easy solution when using a Fast ATA MKIV from AmigaKit... but will work with a four way IDE interface too...  just tricky with master/slave and connecting the ribbon cable correctly to the MB IDE connector.

Connecting audio out to A1200 MB...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=762522

[Iggy]

Big X-Files fan, are we?

[AmmoJammo]

Big X-Files fan, are we?

Same house I've lived in for my entire life (minus about 2 years a while back when I moved out)

The X-Files stuff was all from my older brother, 15+ years ago. There is also a large "X-Files" logo on the wall behind the 286 motherboard in the top left, and a few other bits and pieces around, such as "trust no one" :lol: