ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2017
Entry 15th May 2017: Post: 1
There is an Amiga god
Paul
I had thought of drilling them out, but my luck I'll do more damage. I
have noticed it's a theme with hard drives to have some screws that have
been deliberately tightened. Was the same with the Amstrad. It was no
coincidence that the same smaller screw on the interface was 'always'
tightened way more than the others. These two screws on the base of the
GVP are the only ones to have the centre deliberately ruined so they
can't be undone. I've tried everything.
The connector had the last few metal jaws attacked and the one was
folded fully to the bottom. It can't be damaged from simple inserting
into the slot, you really would need to get a sharp object over the
metal and press hard down on it. From the damage I can see. Same thing
happens to PCMCIA cards. The amount of times these things have had stuff
rammed into them and destroyed.
I'm seriously crap when it comes to soldering. I have tried and I fail
every time. I looked at the number of wires coming out of the connector
and then bend down onto the board and there are just way too many. I had
looked. There is a metal cover over the connector and I was kinda hoping
there was another connector so I could replace. No such luck.
Last night was the first time I had used Faaastprep. Amazingly the 2.0
Install and toolbox couldn't see the SCSI on the GVP. But Faaastprep
did. It gives the full details in the drive and has a weird way of
letting you choose numbers of partitions and sizes. First time I did it
I managed to format a drive so that the volume was 0.0 mb in size.
Wasn't very useful. I guess its something to do with the gvp.device.
Worked a treat to be honest. I liked the way it asks for a disk , any
disk , that you might want installed as part of the format process.
I am in the habit now of adf-ing everything I use so I can quickly
replicate the disks when I need to, so Faaastprep earned its place in
the Amiga vault last night. Not bad. Not bad.
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