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Offline n9uxuTopic starter

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Let's talk a1200 hard drives
« on: December 01, 2005, 01:41:20 AM »
Okay...the machine has it's original 80mb hardrive which may or may not be large enough for 3.9, but will definately fill up once the amiga can see the net and I have easy access to aminet.

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I want to swap in a bigger hard drive.  I have a nice 6gb drive sitting on my bench, but when I pop it into the 1200, the machine locks on boot with the hard drive light on.  Is there anyway to make this drive work (short of a fast/ata adapter) such as pre-partioning it on a windows machine to make partitions that are smaller than 4bg or will the native controller just refuse to look at any drive larger than the 4.2 giggers?

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Re: Let's talk a1200 hard drives
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2005, 02:22:32 AM »
It worked in the compaq I pulled it out of...and the winbox I hooked it up to to pull some forgotten tax records...the amiga bails on it though...

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Re: Let's talk a1200 hard drives
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2005, 02:23:36 AM »
ata/ide ibm travelstar 6gb...set to master (no jumper in place).

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Re: Let's talk a1200 hard drives
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2005, 02:10:04 PM »
So before I run out to ebay and purchase another hard drive for the a1200, what is the foot print of OS3.9.  How big of a drive will I need to install the puppy?

Dave