ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2019 Entry 5th October 2019: Post 03: Amiga 600HD - Finally did it. Amiga 600HD - Finally did it. The last few days have seen me trying desperately to get an Amiga 600HD fitted with a 60GB hard drive that I purchased all the way from China. Yesterday I had all but given up cus of problems with the keyboard and an issue trying to format the drives. Having had the scare about the capacitors I cleaned the ribbon slot to the keyboard but with no joy. Something very odd was going on and in the end I sense there is a fracture on the ribbon cable itself which in truth is very brittle. I did have another keyboard, albeit a little faded and with one of the keys missing. I decided to give that a try and see if I could at least determine if it was the computer or keyboard. Turned out that the computer is fine cus the keyboard worked from the get go no problem. So I have a keyboard working minus the full stop. Next up I pulled the Amiga 1200 that I installed the hard drive on yesterday and given I could only quick format with OS3 and later I had the notion of formatting the Workbench and installing the 2.05 OS onto the drive on the 1200 and then moving it over. In truth there was no need to format the drive. I simply deleted the Workbench contents having booted the A1200 with the 2.05 disk. The computer refused to install the OS though as it couldn't recognise a Kickstart that in its day did not exist. So I simply copied the disk contents plus the two others to the Workbench and renamed it to the version 2.0. I rebooted and the computer fired up OS 2.05. So it was a simple job then to move the hard drive over to the A600HD and she worked a charm. I have all the keys available working less the full stop and now have 4GB of 60GB available. I only use the first 4GB to keep under the drive limitations for the Amiga. All seems to be working just fine. I will keep an eye out for a replacement floppy drive and maybe another keyboard. But for now the major challenge of getting an A600HD working with a 2.5" internal drive is complete. And before you ask ' no ' ... I don't use CF cards. They are silent and man do I hate that in a computer. Amiga 600HD - Finally did it.

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