HD Replacement for A590
 

Greetz from NZ,

Ive wanted to replace the HD in my A590 from the existing 20M seagate
(ST 325N) to something bigger...
Today i got a Seagate ST12400N Fast (Hawk 2)SCSI
And i'm having trouble gettin it to work ... 8(
If any one out there can help ......
My system is an A500 + A501 + A590 2Meg +workbench/kick 1.3

HDTool box wont read the config from the HD ??

Any help for a n00b :spin or any FAQs you could point me to would be great

Thanx....

This might be of some help: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/amine...lp/a590faq.txt

So far.....
 

so after looking around at various specs that always are missing something,
i think i have sorted it....
For HDToolBox (with Seagate ST-12400n) we have 3 fields:
Cylinders: 2621
Heads : 19
Block per Track: ?? 82 ?? (was the unknown on specs...)

At the moment i have 3x partitions (1x 50M, 1x 999M, 1x 980~M)
1st partition works well ... Formatting other 2...
before i had a number for blocks/track i seemed to be getting "wrap-around.?"

Also there are 2x sets of jumpers for the address on HD, i had better luck
using the ones on the front (near the LED)......address 6

Anyways, hope this helps anyone out there with an A590....

ROMS in the sidecar are 6.6 - so it should be able to handle ~4GigHD???

The ST-12400N is a taller HD (more platters) but it seems as though
it will fit in the A590 - just the threads on the hex-stand offs are wider

Now to try a SCSI cdrom daisy-chained to the whole shebang....

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A500-REV6.1 + A590-2Gig + 2.5Meg RAM + (soon) 1Meg ChipRam.. + Kick1.3

:crazy

Bugger...
 

1 MB Chip Ram up-grade using the A501 Exp. (Fast--->Chip)
wont work when i hookup A590HD+2MB just get the grey screen at bootup

???? ......:banghead dammit.

I was gonna populate the spare ram sockets on the A500 Mobo
with some ram swiped from another , but dont know if this would be wise
if i cant use it with my HD....

Anybody know any work-arounds etc???.....Thanx

I just picked up a 4.3 gig Seagate Cheetah and 2 meg worth of mem chips for my A590 so I'm formatting the drive now... I used HDInstTools from Aminet because the A590 setup disk wasnt reading my drives config... formatting now... this will take a while :P

I also got a 40xSCSI cd-rom and an old power supply and have the SCSI connector for the CD-rom so I will be trying to get this going next.

The A590 works fine with 1MB CHIP.

Unregistered, use quick format, not regular format. Also, make sure you only use under 4GB of the drive. (computer gigs, that is 4096MB)

Thanks Jope.... I was the Unregistered guest :D