sram amiga 600 doesn't work

25 July 2015, 12:00

Hi! I need some help with my amiga 600, i bought a 2 mb ram card, 16bit, bought a new battery, but it dosent add ram to the software. I can't find prepcard either, it should be under "tools" right? Is there a way to run prepcard, or might it not exist on my computer..?

I got my amiga with the preinstalled 4 gb-ssdcard filled with games and that chip.
The diskdrive is making a clicking-sound.

All help will be highly appreciated!

-torgeir

jimbob · 26 July 2015, 01:24

If you are 100% sure it is SRAM and not flash or something, it should just work.

Plug it in, power up, and the RAM should be automatically added to the system.

Prepcard should be in tools, it is only really needed to prepare the card as a disk but would be handy to make sure the hardware is detected correctly and reset it to use as memory if it has got itself in some kind of funk.

Try entering

which prepcard

in a shell in case it has ended up somewhere funny on your preinstalled CF, more likely it has been left out though.

Do you have any other PCMCIA cards, like a CF adaptor to make sure the port is working?

voyager · 26 July 2015, 12:53

If the pcmcia card has a battery is sounds to me like a flash ram card not a ram card.

fitzsteve · 26 July 2015, 13:11

It needs to be prepared as ram the first time.

Jope · 26 July 2015, 17:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by voyager

If the pcmcia card has a battery is sounds to me like a flash ram card not a ram card.

On the contrary, flash doesn't need a battery to keep its contents, SRAM does.

03 August 2016, 21:37

Hi! thanks for help, it just dosent work, so i guess the hardware is broken, ill get a new setup somehow. oh, and sorry for the laaate response.

Zetr0 · 03 August 2016, 22:57

@bergto

My friend, as fitzsteve has mentioned - you need to run "Prep Card" to set the card up as FAST RAM. If you do not do this it simply wont be recognized by the system as either DISK or RAM.

r.cade · 04 August 2016, 03:03

I don't think Prepcard is needed for SRAM cards... They just show up.

Now, it is really easy to bend pins on that slot, though.

Zetr0 · 04 August 2016, 10:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by r.cade

I don't think Prepcard is needed for SRAM cards... They just show up.

Sadly this is not the case of all cards. I have a few here and had a few more over the years, sadly only one (which came from another Amiga) worked first time. This is out of 8 cards I have had ranging from 1MB to 4MB

Every other card that I have bought from either AmiBay, eBay or at a computer show required Card Prep.

Quote:

Originally Posted by r.cade

Now, it is really easy to bend pins on that slot, though.

This is also a good point to mention

I have had to repair an A1200 and an A600 with bent PCMCIA pins.

25 July 2015, 12:00	#1
torgeir_b Posts: n/a	sram amiga 600 doesn't work Hi! I need some help with my amiga 600, i bought a 2 mb ram card, 16bit, bought a new battery, but it dosent add ram to the software. I can't find prepcard either, it should be under "tools" right? Is there a way to run prepcard, or might it not exist on my computer..? I got my amiga with the preinstalled 4 gb-ssdcard filled with games and that chip. The diskdrive is making a clicking-sound. All help will be highly appreciated! -torgeir

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26 July 2015, 01:24	#2
jimbob Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Kilmacolm Age: 46 Posts: 632	If you are 100% sure it is SRAM and not flash or something, it should just work. Plug it in, power up, and the RAM should be automatically added to the system. Prepcard should be in tools, it is only really needed to prepare the card as a disk but would be handy to make sure the hardware is detected correctly and reset it to use as memory if it has got itself in some kind of funk. Try entering which prepcard in a shell in case it has ended up somewhere funny on your preinstalled CF, more likely it has been left out though. Do you have any other PCMCIA cards, like a CF adaptor to make sure the port is working?

26 July 2015, 12:53	#3
voyager The show must go on. Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Alkmaar Nederland Posts: 269	If the pcmcia card has a battery is sounds to me like a flash ram card not a ram card.

26 July 2015, 13:11	#4
fitzsteve Professional slacker! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kent, UK Age: 44 Posts: 6,683	It needs to be prepared as ram the first time.

03 August 2016, 21:37	#6
bergto Posts: n/a	Hi! thanks for help, it just dosent work, so i guess the hardware is broken, ill get a new setup somehow. oh, and sorry for the laaate response.

03 August 2016, 22:57	#7
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@bergto My friend, as fitzsteve has mentioned - you need to run "Prep Card" to set the card up as FAST RAM. If you do not do this it simply wont be recognized by the system as either DISK or RAM.

04 August 2016, 03:03	#8
r.cade Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Augusta, Georgia, USA Posts: 550	I don't think Prepcard is needed for SRAM cards... They just show up. Now, it is really easy to bend pins on that slot, though.

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