What 2.5" drive?

ORSM T · 04 May 2007, 14:04

What should I look for to replace the 40meg drive in my A1200? Anything that sets it aside from a normal 2.5" ide drive? Or will any 2.5" do? I recall 12 years ago, I tried a Laptop hard disk (170meg) in my last A1200. It worked ok, but wouldn't boot straight in. Had to warm reboot to get it going. Cold boot would only go to Rom screen.

Peter · 04 May 2007, 14:09

It should boot straight into Workbench - it may have been the case that your previous hard drive was to slow in spinning up at first startup...

I would try and pick up a 2 or 3 gig standard 2.5 IDE laptop hard drive as they soon fill up with all the WHDLoad games available now... anything other 4 gig could cause you problems.

You will need a specific amiga hard drive cable (loads on Ebay)

Merlin · 04 May 2007, 14:22

Why not go the route of an IDE to CF adapter, and boot from that? You can get 1 Gig CF cards from 7dayShop for £6.99, you would struggle to get a 2.5" drive for that from Fleabay....for that kind of price, you could have several cards with different WB setups on them.

Merlin

ORSM T · 04 May 2007, 14:42

So a 40 gig drive would be too big? I can source one for around $50 aud, new.

Zetr0 · 04 May 2007, 16:08

the amiga is limmited (under Workbench 3.1 and under) to a maximum partition and physical drive read of 4GB. there are several methods you can use to aleviate this limmitation.

1. Use a boot drive (it could even be a compact flash card these are blisteringly quick for a miggy)
by using a boot drive (of say 100 - 512MB) you can then have it set up and use a new SFS or better Amiga file system, so that it can understand larger disks (and partition sizes)

2. these is some support for Large disks under OS 3.5 and obvioulsy 3.9. but there is always a physical limmitation of under 4GB for a boot drive!

3. there have been some that have achieved partitioning a Large drive with a small (very small) parition, installed to this partition and had it able to read the rest of the hard drive using a newer file system. (the best method i have found to achieve this is through the use of WinUAE )

ORSM T · 05 May 2007, 09:11

I have version 3.00 roms, Kickstart version 39.106 and Workbench 39.29. Maybe I'll see if I can get a smaller drive... I'm a little green to start clever stuff just yet. LOL

Graham Humphrey · 05 May 2007, 10:56

You could try installing SFS which is on Aminet, that should help you get around the 4GB problem under 3.0. Though as I don't actually use it myself, or have a big enough hard drive to try this particular feature out, I've got no idea on how well it works.

ORSM T · 05 May 2007, 14:08

If I do install a larger than 4gb drive, would it still work and only recognise 4gb? I ask this just in case I can't get the afore mentioned methods to work for me. Lots of questions, yes. But how else do we learn?

04 May 2007, 14:04	#1
ORSM T Amiga Rulez Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Melton, Australia Age: 63 Posts: 85	What 2.5" drive? What should I look for to replace the 40meg drive in my A1200? Anything that sets it aside from a normal 2.5" ide drive? Or will any 2.5" do? I recall 12 years ago, I tried a Laptop hard disk (170meg) in my last A1200. It worked ok, but wouldn't boot straight in. Had to warm reboot to get it going. Cold boot would only go to Rom screen.

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04 May 2007, 14:09	#2
Peter Still an Amiga user Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kent Age: 55 Posts: 2,715	It should boot straight into Workbench - it may have been the case that your previous hard drive was to slow in spinning up at first startup... I would try and pick up a 2 or 3 gig standard 2.5 IDE laptop hard drive as they soon fill up with all the WHDLoad games available now... anything other 4 gig could cause you problems. You will need a specific amiga hard drive cable (loads on Ebay)

04 May 2007, 14:22	#3
Merlin AmiBay MegaMod Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Manchester, UK Age: 62 Posts: 1,163	Why not go the route of an IDE to CF adapter, and boot from that? You can get 1 Gig CF cards from 7dayShop for £6.99, you would struggle to get a 2.5" drive for that from Fleabay....for that kind of price, you could have several cards with different WB setups on them. Merlin

04 May 2007, 14:42	#4
ORSM T Amiga Rulez Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Melton, Australia Age: 63 Posts: 85	So a 40 gig drive would be too big? I can source one for around $50 aud, new.

04 May 2007, 16:08	#5
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	the amiga is limmited (under Workbench 3.1 and under) to a maximum partition and physical drive read of 4GB. there are several methods you can use to aleviate this limmitation. 1. Use a boot drive (it could even be a compact flash card these are blisteringly quick for a miggy) by using a boot drive (of say 100 - 512MB) you can then have it set up and use a new SFS or better Amiga file system, so that it can understand larger disks (and partition sizes) 2. these is some support for Large disks under OS 3.5 and obvioulsy 3.9. but there is always a physical limmitation of under 4GB for a boot drive! 3. there have been some that have achieved partitioning a Large drive with a small (very small) parition, installed to this partition and had it able to read the rest of the hard drive using a newer file system. (the best method i have found to achieve this is through the use of WinUAE )

05 May 2007, 09:11	#6
ORSM T Amiga Rulez Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Melton, Australia Age: 63 Posts: 85	I have version 3.00 roms, Kickstart version 39.106 and Workbench 39.29. Maybe I'll see if I can get a smaller drive... I'm a little green to start clever stuff just yet. LOL

05 May 2007, 10:56	#7
Graham Humphrey Moderator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK Age: 37 Posts: 11,167	You could try installing SFS which is on Aminet, that should help you get around the 4GB problem under 3.0. Though as I don't actually use it myself, or have a big enough hard drive to try this particular feature out, I've got no idea on how well it works.

05 May 2007, 14:08	#8
ORSM T Amiga Rulez Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Melton, Australia Age: 63 Posts: 85	If I do install a larger than 4gb drive, would it still work and only recognise 4gb? I ask this just in case I can't get the afore mentioned methods to work for me. Lots of questions, yes. But how else do we learn?

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