Pc inside Amiga 1200 project - completed

[Harrison]

Very nice to see it finally completed.

I wonder if the 2.5" sata cable is too long? The laptop hdd port might be designed to only allow short cables? And struggles with longer ones. If you have a PCMCIA port on the motherboard you could get a SATA expansion card for that and ditch the built in port.

[Tiago]

The cable is about 20cm... quite strange, but i found similar problems by other people on the web.
The cable cost me less then 1 dollar includind shipping... it looks good, looks a "normal" cable, i don't know if is good or not...

[Andrew1971]

Hi Tiago
Awesome work you have done there. Whats it like when running does it get hot or not. Whats the performance like.
More pics whens its all built and running please.When people ask WHY did you do it. I find the answer is because i CAN do it.
And its a challenge. Its an awesome A1200 Execellent work. Now whats next.
Many Thanks
Andrew

[Tiago]

As a Pee Cee Mother board, it was biuld for being inside a very closed case (laptop). In A1200 case it has similar space. I have the original cooler fan, so temperature is equal as in the origianl Pee Cee.

WHY did you do it. I find the answer is because i CAN do it.
And its a challenge

Yes !! That's it, it was a challenge, i learned a lot with it, my soldering skills were bad, now, they are a bti better.

[Harrison]

SATA cables do seem more fragile than the older IDE ones and seem to suddenly stop working if handled a few times. I find the ones bundled with Asus motherboards the most reliable.

[Tiago]

Yes,
and this cable has vrey thin wires, and with 20 centimeters a guess they can receive "interference".
Maybe if i cut then to half size they would work better?

[Andrew1971]

Hi All
Tiago whats you next project PC in A600

[Tiago]

I don't know, but i am looking at the Rashberry pi, and i looks very interesting...
why not? an Rashberry pi inside A600 ?

[Harrison]

I would personally look at the new Android board for such a project. Only for the reason it can run all Android software from the app store so already has a large library including emulators. Although with the Raspberry Pi you can run Linux.