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Old 07-04-2006, 08:18 AM   #1
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Default Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
I just won an auction for a nice 2.5" 4.0 gig hard drive
for my Amiga 600.

Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?

I know 3.5" drives need to have a 'Y' off the floppy drives power.
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Old 07-04-2006, 08:22 AM   #2
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A 2.5 inch HDD with the proper 2.5 inch HDD cable can be installed with just that cable and no others.
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Old 07-04-2006, 08:23 AM   #3
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Does the ribbon cable supply power for a laptop or do I need something special?
Power is supplied through the 44 pin ribbon cable, you don't need an additional power connection.

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Old 07-04-2006, 08:25 AM   #4
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Default Re: Adding a hd to an Amiga 600
Now you have to wonder if you have a HD cradle in your A600 (some do, some dont) and if the holes on your hard drive will line up or if you will have to use an elastic band.
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Old 07-04-2006, 08:32 AM   #5
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I dont think theres a cradle. Ill have to figure something out
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Old 07-04-2006, 10:41 AM   #6
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you might need extra RAM, for large HDDs, esp. if you make several partitions.
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Old 07-04-2006, 02:55 PM   #7
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Spare HD cradles can usually be found on ebay or:

http://www.amigadeals.co.uk


I was lucky. My A600 came with a cradle I have 1MB extra RAM in the trapdoor (total of 2MB RAM).


Not sure what you are on about with the alignment though? Mine appears to be ok.


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Old 07-05-2006, 04:11 AM   #8
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You can also pry to have the good kick that handle correctly the HDD !! (2.05)
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Yeppers I have 2.05 roms and extra 1mb in trapdoor with clock.

When I bought my 600 it came with a hard drive already , a modified 3.5" to sit on top.
Figures during shipping the logic board got fubared.
I was able to order a replacement drive to move logic boards and hope it works.
Its only a gig'er but has adf2disk and stuff on it which I dont want to loose.

I just ordered a 4.1 gig laptop drive for inside and a 2.5" ribbon cable from apple to make connection short.

Next I will add 3.1 roms probably.
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