Amiga 600 optical cd dvd rom install: Pics Inside!

[AmmoJammo]

I know its not shorting, because I cut the pins off, and there's two layers of kapton tape over the board

I need to modify the ide cable now, as obviously it won't fit where it used to run...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

That is dang impressive!  Almost makes me want to do something crazy like fit an optical drive inside my cell phone or something, just to one-up you, haha.  :lol:  No, seriously, great work!  :banana:

[paul1981]

I know its not shorting, because I cut the pins off, and there's two layers of kapton tape over the board

I need to modify the ide cable now, as obviously it won't fit where it used to run...

I'd like to see the keyboard in place now. Looks pretty tight to me, but it looks as though you're well on the way.

[AmmoJammo]

I'd like to see the keyboard in place now. Looks pretty tight to me, but it looks as though you're well on the way.

Keyboard has already been fitted with the optical drive in place, and the optical drive hasn't moved.



I'm going to try and get another half a mm or so of clearance between the accelerator and the optical drive, as I think its a bit too close :hammer:

[som99]

haha great work, knew it would fit

[AmmoJammo]

its all together, for now, and it works.

However, while I had it apart, I changed the ide wiring, and now the cd drive refuses to auto mount...

Previously, it would only mount if there was a cd in the drive, now it will never mount, even putting it at the very end of the startup sequence, after workbench has loaded!

However, type "mount CD0:" in the shell, and it mounts every time, even without the cd in the drive, so maybe I'll just mount it with a shortcut from now on



I'm also planning to add an internal DC-DC power supply, so I can run the Amiga off a small laptop power supply, and may in the future add an A604n, and an Indivision scan doubler

I also believe that the CPU needs a heatsink... it got to about 70 degrees doing basically nothing.... I'm also considering adding a fan to the top of the case so there's some active cooling.

[AmmoJammo]

[AmmoJammo]

Needed a heatsink



I do however now suspect that the ide cable is putting pressure on the  bottom of the drive, and putting a load on the eject mechanism when  trying to eject a CD...

[AmmoJammo]

I ended up building a messy DC-DC converter, just to get it running, so I didn't have to carry the 1.8kg original power supply around.



Its not the final version, as the parts I'm waiting on haven't arrived yet, so it was just made using what I already have.

The -12v rail is coming from a dc-dc module that does +-12v, but if you unevenly load the rails, they go fairly out of spec, so I'm only using the -12v, with a small load applied to the +12v side to keep it balanced.

Meanwhile, I'm using a 93 cent dual output dc-dc module off ebay, modified to give the +5 and +12volt rails.... what can possibly go wrong!

[trekiej]

Are there any 3.5 inch DVD drives that cold go where the FDD goes?

[AmmoJammo]

When I press the right shift key, I get about 8 keystrokes across the keyboard, including caps lock being turned on xD

Oh dear....

[AmmoJammo]

Work in progress on the new internal DC-DC power supply... xD

[AmmoJammo]

"overclocking voids warranty"?

[AAACHIPSET]

the  a600  has  svideo  output?..

[AmmoJammo]

the  a600  has  svideo  output?..

They do if you add it :hammer:

[AmmoJammo]

This probably won't explode as much...