A600 Help

Solid Snake · 21 July 2020, 14:08

HI 2 all EAB members. I recently picked up an A600 with ROM version 37.299. A friend opened it and informed me that 3 pins of the IDE board socket are broken. What can I do? I want to update the ROM & install a CF storage solution. Any help much appreciated.

Jope · 21 July 2020, 18:52

You should definitely clean and recap it, often missing pins in the IDE connector are because they corroded and snapped.

andy2004 · 21 July 2020, 19:00

depends on how good you are with a solderer.. you should be able to buy a ide connector on ebay and solder it in yourself..

Solid Snake · 21 July 2020, 22:16

Thanks 4 reading. Unfortunately, I have no experience with a soldering iron. I have stumbled upon another solution. A Gotek USB drive. If I go down this route, can I still add and use an external 3-1/2inch floppy drive? Also, will it be possible to boot into WB from the Gotek and run applications from WB?

-Acid- · 22 July 2020, 00:32

You'd also need a kickstart upgrade if you wanted to use an internal IDE device as you need at least kickstart 37.300

Jope · 22 July 2020, 08:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Thanks 4 reading. Unfortunately, I have no experience with a soldering iron. I have stumbled upon another solution. A Gotek USB drive. If I go down this route, can I still add and use an external 3-1/2inch floppy drive? Also, will it be possible to boot into WB from the Gotek and run applications from WB?

It is possible to use an external floppy drive with an internal gotek.

Yes, you can boot into WB from the gotek, just about all of the things you can do with dos compatible disks inserted into a mechanical df0 will work.

This means: non-copy protected stuff works identically to a mechanical drive.

Mikerochip · 22 July 2020, 15:13

Copy protected stuff will work just fine too Jope.

I've converted lots of .ipf files to HFEv3 and they're perfect.
more than a few .SCP files I've dumped too.

No problems.

Daedalus · 22 July 2020, 15:44

It really depends on the copy protection used. Non-standard formats that still adhere to the 880k sector geometry will still work on a Gotek. Formats that make use of funky sectors or tracks with non-standard amounts of data are less likely to be Gotek compatible.

But, regardless of the solution, it sounds like you need to replace the capacitors in that machine. Even a Gotek-only machine will fail eventually if its capacitors are leaking.

Jope · 23 July 2020, 11:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mikerochip

Copy protected stuff will work just fine too Jope.

Yeps, many copy protected things will work, but I worded my self towards the side of caution. If it fits on an ADF it will work exactly as it should. :-)

21 July 2020, 14:08	#1
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	A600 Help HI 2 all EAB members. I recently picked up an A600 with ROM version 37.299. A friend opened it and informed me that 3 pins of the IDE board socket are broken. What can I do? I want to update the ROM & install a CF storage solution. Any help much appreciated.

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21 July 2020, 18:52	#2
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,862	You should definitely clean and recap it, often missing pins in the IDE connector are because they corroded and snapped.

21 July 2020, 19:00	#3
andy2004 Zone Friend Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hampshire Age: 49 Posts: 271	depends on how good you are with a solderer.. you should be able to buy a ide connector on ebay and solder it in yourself..

21 July 2020, 22:16	#4
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	Thanks 4 reading. Unfortunately, I have no experience with a soldering iron. I have stumbled upon another solution. A Gotek USB drive. If I go down this route, can I still add and use an external 3-1/2inch floppy drive? Also, will it be possible to boot into WB from the Gotek and run applications from WB?

22 July 2020, 00:32	#5
-Acid- Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shields Posts: 812	You'd also need a kickstart upgrade if you wanted to use an internal IDE device as you need at least kickstart 37.300

22 July 2020, 15:13	#7
Mikerochip Registered User Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Ireland Posts: 304	Copy protected stuff will work just fine too Jope. I've converted lots of .ipf files to HFEv3 and they're perfect. more than a few .SCP files I've dumped too. No problems.

22 July 2020, 15:44	#8
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,335	It really depends on the copy protection used. Non-standard formats that still adhere to the 880k sector geometry will still work on a Gotek. Formats that make use of funky sectors or tracks with non-standard amounts of data are less likely to be Gotek compatible. But, regardless of the solution, it sounds like you need to replace the capacitors in that machine. Even a Gotek-only machine will fail eventually if its capacitors are leaking.

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