What is the biggest Hard Drive you can fit in a Amiga 1200?

[UK-Wobbie]

Only like to know what is the biggest.
I have been looking it up and some peeps say you can go up to 1TB or more. If you install some tools or something.

[clauddio]

Originally Posted by UK-Wobbie

Only like to know what is the biggest.
I have been looking it up and some peeps say you can go up to 1TB or more. If you install some tools or something.

I have a 80gb hardisk in my A1200 however is 90% empty
on the amiga you really don't need much hardisk space
anyways using PFS3 maybe you can connect a 1 tb hardisk and will work fine
on the other way...I have a friend and told me he connected a 320gb ide hardisk and no problems

[UK-Wobbie]

Originally Posted by clauddio

I have a 80gb hardisk in my A1200 however is 90% empty
on the amiga you really don't need much hardisk space
anyways using PFS3 maybe you can connect a 1 tb hardisk and will work fine
on the other way...I have a friend and told me he connected a 320gb ide hardisk and no problems

Thanks for the info.

May i ask what Workbench you are using?
I have got a 4GB card in my Amiga 1200 whatis running out of space getting.

[thomas]

With AmigaOS 3.1 (and below) you can use up to 4GB. This means you can connect the 1TB HDD, but you may create partitions only in the forst 4GB of it. If you create partitions outside 4GB you risk data loss, usually sneaking (unnoticed for a long time), sometimes sudden (HDD does not boot anymore).

With available patches for 3.1 and matching file systems you can increase the limit to 128 GB (no LBA48 support).

For 3.9 there exists a patch with LBA48 support, so with this installed you can use up to 2TB. This is a limit of HDToolbox and the SCSI commands used (even for IDE).

AFAIK there is no support (or at least it is not proven to work) for advanced format (4K physical block size), so 2TB is also the physical limit. And you need to make sure not to buy a HDD with advanced format, even it it's smaller than 2TB.

Note that it's not easy to judge if all drivers are installed correctly to support more than 4GB.

[UK-Wobbie]

Originally Posted by thomas

With AmigaOS 3.1 (and below) you can use up to 4GB. This means you can connect the 1TB HDD, but you may create partitions only in the forst 4GB of it. If you create partitions outside 4GB you risk data loss, usually sneaking (unnoticed for a long time), sometimes sudden (HDD does not boot anymore).

With available patches for 3.1 and matching file systems you can increase the limit to 128 GB (no LBA48 support).

For 3.9 there exists a patch with LBA48 support, so with this installed you can use up to 2TB. This is a limit of HDToolbox and the SCSI commands used (even for IDE).

AFAIK there is no support (or at least it is not proven to work) for advanced format (4K physical block size), so 2TB is also the physical limit. And you need to make sure not to buy a HDD with advanced format, even it it's smaller than 2TB.

Note that it's not easy to judge if all drivers are installed correctly to support more than 4GB.

Thanks that's all i needed to know.
Is it best to go down that road of installing a 128GB hard drive or stay with the 4GB card.

As i love to have more space to play with when this 4GB card runs out.

[jiffy]

Originally Posted by UK-Wobbie

Only like to know what is the biggest.

2.5" as standard, but some people are able to put in a 3.5" drive...

If you can find a working one, you might even be able to cram in a Quantum Bigfoot!

[UK-Wobbie]

Originally Posted by jiffy

2.5" as standard, but some people are able to put in a 3.5" drive...

If you can find a working one, you might even be able to cram in a Quantum Bigfoot!

Sounds big lol

As any one had a go installing a bigger hd card then 4GB?

[cosmicfrog]

yes same applies for cf cards as it dose for HDDs, though some cf cards don`t seem to work on the amiga

[thgill]

I have ran a 16GB SDHC card on the IDE bus of my 1200 without issue. 3.1 with patched scsi.device and SFS file system.


Picking up a 32GB card sometime in the next couple days.

[FOL]

Or you can attach a FastATA and use 2TB, .