A1200 revived after long sleep...

Hello everybody,

I was looking on my parents attic and found my old A1200 !!
It is a A1200 with a Blizzard 1220 (020 at 28 MHZ) and 2 MB chip, 4mb fast. The HD is a 240 mb seagate.

So I thinking to use this baby again and installed a old 3.2 GB Samsung in it. The original hd with os3.1 is stored on a safe place.

Now I have a few questions, maybe somebody can answer me !

1) Can I format a HD to Amiga format on a PC with WINUAE? So running WB and creating partitions with HD Toolbox.Then I put the 3.2Gb in my PC
and install the OS.

2) Which WB should I install? WB 3.1? I read about OS 4.0? Runs this good on my machine? Is it free?

Thanks for now,

Maurice

P.S. also own a old A500 and C64 !

[thomas]

1) Can I format a HD to Amiga format on a PC with WINUAE? So running WB and creating partitions with HD Toolbox.Then I put the 3.2Gb in my PC
and install the OS.

Yes, you can. You can even run HDToolbox and create partitions with WinUAE. You need WinXP or 2K, though. Do not try this with 95/98/ME, it won't work and will destroy the Amiga data on the HDD.

2) Which WB should I install? WB 3.1? I read about OS 4.0? Runs this good on my machine? Is it free?

WB 3.1 is fine. With Kickstart 3.1, a CD-ROM drive and some more memory you could go for 3.5 or 3.9.

4.0 needs a PowerPC processor and a graphics card and it is not free. It's not even available yet.

[rare_j]

Now might be a good time to mention that the the fastfilesystem used in WB3.1 has a maximum partition size of 2GB.

So you'll need to create at least two partitons (more if you like) to fill that 3.2 GB Samsung.

[dkovacs]

I have a 3GB partition on my A1200 under kickstart3.0/Workbench 3.1 and it works fine - filled with WHDLoad games

[Unknown_K]

I have a 3.2GB IBM 2.5" drive in my A1200 and it was easy to setup (2 partitions I think) using WB 3.0.

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by dkovacs

I have a 3GB partition on my A1200 under kickstart3.0/Workbench 3.1 and it works fine - filled with WHDLoad games

How?

I hope you have some updated files :- scsi.device, FFS64,SFS,PFS?

I guess you have already sorted this if you are runing such a large boot partition, but if not beware of impending data loss.

The limitations do depend somewhat on hardware, OS version, & if you are talking about bootable partitions or not.

Um... where on the HDD the partitions are & what updates you use...

[Parsec]

Yep, I had data loss on my 6GB drive and had to install SFS and repartition it. Works a treat now though