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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Anyone have a list of suitable IDE drives for the 1200?
- Message-ID: <37253@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 05:08:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.050113.9359@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Nov16.220156.24949@maths.tcd.ie> <13681@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <13681@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
- > In <1992Nov16.220156.24949@maths.tcd.ie> mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) writes:
- >
- > >IDEs confuse me. I assumed that there was a standard, but any PC mag I've
- > >looked into rambles on about inter-IDE compatibility issues. Is this just
- > >a drive/drive thing, or will there be problems hooking a bog standard one
- > >up to the 1200?
- > >--
- >
- > Any 2.5" IDE Drive should work, the tricky bit is the cable... there is
- > a crossover in the 44 pin connector which means that it is non-standard.
-
- Nonsense. It is a standard 1-1 cable. The only issues (beyond finding
- one at all) is that it needs to be quite short and some varities of the
- ribbon connectors I've seen are too tall and you get interference between
- the connectors on each end of the cable when the cable is plugged in.
-
- > Just get a specific Amiga IDE Drive Lead from an Amiga Dealer and you
- > should have no problems.
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