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12 January 2007, 13:40
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Amiga Nut
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Belco, Australia
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Which wire is power on A600?
Hey there boys & girls.
My A600 tower conversion is coming along nicely (working great in fact) and before I finish the external connections I'd like to add a switch to disable the HDD (actually a CF card in my case, but that's not important here). I don't know which of the 44 wires in the HDD ribbon cable is the power wire...can somebody please tell me? The plan is to put a switch in-line with the HDD power so I can effectively disable the HDD device when I need to...much like you would do when running a "hard" dual-boot system on a PC. I could figure it out myself, but I don't want to make a mess of the cable, as they are hard to find  PZ. |
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12 January 2007, 13:43
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Amiga Nut
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Forgot to set "reply email mode"...ooops, had to do this to know
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12 January 2007, 13:44
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Thalion Webshrine
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Erm, A600 has the same PSU connector as the A500 and A1200....
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/am...iga_power_lead |
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12 January 2007, 13:54
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Amiga Nut
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Quote:
I want to know which wire on the 44 pin IDE cable leading to the HDD carries the juice  PZ. |
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12 January 2007, 14:24
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Germany
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Pins 41 to 44, where:
Pin 41: +5V logic Pin 42: +5V motor Pin 43: ground Pin 44: NC Only the +5V lines need to be switched. Keep in mind , that P-ATA does not support hot pluggng in any way. Make sure to use the switch only while the A600 is turned off. Or at least use a RC-circuit to prevent the switch from bouncing (is that the correct english term?). |
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13 January 2007, 06:27
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Ya' like it Retr0?
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@Fingers,
hmmmm..... what mischef are you upto?.... |
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13 January 2007, 10:42
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Amiga Nut
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Thanks ganralf, that's just what I needed to know.
Zetr0...it's just that I have a game that won't load from WB and for some reason won't load from DF0 when the HDD is connected...not sure why though  PZ. |
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13 January 2007, 11:48
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Longplayer
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if its only a 1mb a600, maybe the hd is taking up memory the game needs. dissabling at the early boot menu should release those memory buffers.
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13 January 2007, 13:05
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Ya' like it Retr0?
Join Date: Jul 2005
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you can disable the hdd in the quick boot menu by holding mousy buttons down
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