29 December 2023, 12:24 | #1 |
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Advice needed: Power packer, shrinkler or Cranker
Hi all,
And merry Christmas! I got my girlfriend an A600 for Christmas, spend ages setting up the Compact Flash through WinUAE....and the IDE port is broken :-( I've heard you can use a boot floppy to mount Amiga partitions on compact flash using RDBMount. My questions are:
thanks in advance for any help, i've forgotten most of this stuff. |
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Which ROM version/revision are you running? How is it broken?
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29 December 2023, 14:36 | #3 | |
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Thanks for the reply, and the info Jope:
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29 December 2023, 19:15 | #4 | |
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Oof, you replied inside my quote, so it's manual copy paste for me now to reply back to you. :-)
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Basically if your IDE port is broken (37.300 should have working IDE), your CF card would have to go into the PCMCIA slot. If you end up fixing the IDE connector, you can make the partitions you want bootable and select the default partition using the boot priorities of each partition. Higher = higher. Then temporary bootup partition selection can happen from the early startup menu (hold down both mouse buttons on reset). |
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30 December 2023, 12:39 | #5 |
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Yeah, the bootable partitions work on the 1200 -
for when i get the connector fixed. I'm looking into Amiga boot selector, just need to do some research on the startup-sequence, never been that good at this sort of stuff Thanks for the advice/help. |
31 December 2023, 10:56 | #6 |
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Hope you get it sorted. The A600 has probably had its capacitors leak and that's why the IDE port is failing.
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