sasgwb@sas.UUCP (Gary Black) (01/23/90)
I recently (within the last 5 months) have received a Tiny Tiger Budget Hard Drive for my A1000, and I just can't get it to work. After months of going back and forth with Memory And Storage Technology, they have told me what the problem is: They claim they problem is with capacitors C23 to C35 in my Amiga. They claim the 470 PF capacitors need to be replaced by 100 PF capacitors, which are the same ones as in the A2000 and A500. They have sent me the capacitors to use in this replacement. I have a few questions about this: 1) According to MAST, this problem falls into the same catagory as the PAL grounding problem. They even sent me a copy of some postings on the PAL problem to "prove" the A1000 has "a wide variety of well-documented noise and performance problems". My view is that the capacitor incompatability isn't the same. It seems to me that the drive was designed to A2000/A500 specs, and when this problem came up, instead of fixing their drives, they're telling me it's my computer's problem. If it is indeed the capacitors, then shouldn't *EVERY* A1000 have this problem? With the PALs, it wasn't EVERY A1000. 2) What consequences can I expect if I DO replace the capacitors? Is this really something I want to do with my Ami? 3) Is there anyone out there who has (or know of anyone who has) a Tiny Tiger Drive on an A1000 that works without this fix, or without the "other" fix of clipping the three components (I can't remember what they were) on the parallel port? Any info would really be helpful, as I'm kind of stuck as to what I can do. I'd really rather not replace something as basic as capacitors on the A1000 just to make a drive work.