| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 1 Apr 2001 at 12:28:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Advice needed |
On 01-Apr-01, Steve Baker wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> It looks as if 'Miggy has finally died, no booting, not even a boot
> screen. If I plug the CD Drive into the IDE chain it refuses to open,
> everything was working fine two days ago, now I have to rely on my
> laptop.
That sounds like a power supply failure to me. Do the LEDs light up?
> The Config is as follows:
>
> A1200T, Phase 5 PPC 604e+/060, 128Mb Ram, Zorro III,4 way IDE buffer
> Picasso IV, Hypercom, 2Gb Hd, 47gb Hd, Cd-RW
Best bet is to strip it right down to a bare bones A1200, plug in a TV
if necessary, and try to boot off a copy of the WB 3.1 floppy. Then try
the hard drive with the WB on it - still boot off floppy, just see if the
drive is there. Build up gradually.
Some part of the machine has failed, 99% of it is still OK. You just
have to find out which part has failed, and replace it or get it fixed.
> Am I right in thinking that AmigaOne is going to be a software based
> computer?
AmigaOne is a _hardware_ spec. Hardware is being made by Eyetech and
Bplan. Eyetech showed a working board at St Louis, apparently, and
expect to ship in a few weeks.
It could use your existing drives and CD-RW.
> Acting as an overlay on the system of your choice? If so,
> what would be the best configuration? What I'm thinking is getting
> myself a reasonably powerful PC and running an Amiga emulator until
> the AmigaOne is released, would the emulator also be able to read
> Miggy formatted HD's?
There is some talk of linking up WinUAE with the ISA Catweasel card, to
allow reading of Amiga floppies. Software drivers are the problem - at
present it only works with Linux.
Not many PCs still have an ISA slot, BTW.
The AmigaDE as a standalone operating system running on x86 is a long
term project. AROS is another.
I would say, try to find out what's wrong with your Amiga first.
It's best really to have a PC as a second computer, and an Amiga (or
AmigaOne) as your main one.
Regards
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