Power Computing AMIGA DUAL, Owner'S Manual

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Page 3: ... DUAL Section 4 AMIGA PC880B Section 5 Returned Goods please notethat we cannot acceptgoodsfor return without a Power Computing RA number u y o u think that you have received afaulty product please check the troubleshootingguide in this manual carefully and then call Power Computingfor instructions and authorisation Power Computing Ltd Unit 8 Railton Road Woburn Road Ind Estate Kempston Bedford MK...

Page 4: ... drive s internal power supply 4 Switch on the peripherals and computer The drive may now be treated in the same way as your internal drive Note however that your Atari will NOT boot from the external drive even if the internal drive is empty Note NEVER remove a floppy disk from the drive while the drive light is on you may damage the disk or lose information on it Technical Data Storage Capacity ...

Page 5: ... back panel of your Atari The plug will only fit one way into the socket 4 Switch on the peripherals and computer The drive may now be treated in the same way as your internal drive Note however that your Atari will NOT boot from the external drive even if the internal drive is empty Note NEVER remove a floppy disk from the drive while the drive light is on you may damage the disk or lose informat...

Page 6: ...t Tighten the screws on the connector to the computer back panel 4 Turn on the computer and peripherals The drive will draw its power from your Amiga and there is no need for an external power sup ply for the PC880 5 Once the Workbench screen has booted from your internal drive place a disk in your PC880 and a drive icon will appear on the Workbench If no icon appears and the drive LED fails to li...

Page 7: ... drive can be enabled or disabled Technical Data Storage Capacity Unfonnatted Formatted Transfer Rate Track Density No Cylinders Total No Cylinders DC Power Supply Dimensions Weight Double Density l mbyte 880k Bytes 250k bit Sec 135TPI 80 160 5v 220 X 104 X 30 mm 1 Kg ...

Page 8: ...2 Switch the isolating switch located on the rear of the drive to position 1 3 Connect the disk drive s connector to the drive socket on the back panel of your Amiga The plug will only fit one way into the socket Tighten the screws on the connector to the computer back panel 4 Plug the drive into the mains and turn on using the large switch 5 Once the Workbench screen has booted from your internal...

Page 9: ...E 160 PER DRIVE 5V FROM INTERNAL PSU 3 Kg SPECIAL NOTE DUAL DRNE WITH BLITZ For instructions on the special features of this dual drive please refer to the PC880B section of the manual Blitz on the Dual drive works in much the same way as Blitz on the PC880B see enclosed manual However you should note the following important points Blitz Dual copies to TWO disks at once You must have a disk in eac...

Page 10: ...ions and is marked 0 and 1 In position 0 the computer will not recognise the drive In position 1 the drive can be used The computer checks what drives are present when you first switch on This means that Turning this switch on while the computer is on will have no effect To change the isolating switch you MUST switch the computer off first Function Switch The Function Switch has three positions ma...

Page 11: ...ga and all its peripherals 2 Switch the PC880B s isolating switch located on the rear of the drive to position 1 3 Switch the Function switch to position 0 Normal Mode 4 Connect the disk drive s connector to the drive socket on the back panel of your Amiga The plug will only fit one way into the socket Tighten the screws on the connector to the computer back panel 5 Turn on the computer and periph...

Page 12: ...ply Dimensions Weight Double Density 1 mbyte 880k Bytes 250k bit Sec 135 TPI 80 160 5 v 220 X 104 X 30 mm 1 Kg Troubleshooting All PC880B drives are tested at our factory with an Arniga 500and exten sive test software In spite of this we still receive drivesback from users as being faulty Of these Around 75 have no fault and are returned because the customer has not read the instructions usually t...

Page 13: ... of the fault and what you did ready for our staff my PC880 dosen t work or The drive won t format are unlikely to tell us much about your problem The description below would be more helpful Iconnected the PC880B to myAmiga 500 which also has a512K RAM expansion and a modem fitted I set the isolatingswitch toposition l and thefunction switch to position 0 I booted the Amiga w th my workbench disk ...

Page 14: ...entre of the screen and the copy process will begin If you wish to abort the copy operation simply hold down the left mouse button for a few seconds More Complex Copy Operations Normally none of the Blitz Amiga settings will have to be altered even ifthe disk that you wish to copy is for an STorPC forexample However if you do wish to copy a PC or STdisk the copy will take less time if you tell Bli...

Page 15: ...cted under the 1988 Copyright Act 6 Blitz Amiga is a high precision copier which demands a high degree of accuracy from the Amiga internal drive While most internal drives are able to provide this accuracy many are not when standard quality disks are used to make copies If problems are experienced while copying standard DOS disks with Blitz Amiga we recommend the use of high density 1 44MB floppy ...

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