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Title: I need some floppy and hdd advice
Post by: roskoff on May 12, 2005, 04:17:05 PM

My A1200 motherboard arrived in the mail yesterday (intact, yippee!).  Now I need to find a floppy disk drive and hard disk drive for it.  Any recommendations on sources?  Any models/types I should avoid for either drive?  I plan to put this into a tower case if that affects what I should buy.  Oh, and the ROMs are 3.0 so will I need to upgrade those to 3.1 before I install any drives?  Thanks.

-R0sk0FF

Title: Re: I need some floppy and hdd advice
Post by: doctorq on May 12, 2005, 04:40:12 PM

If you are going to install the motherboard in a tower anyway, then go for a 3.5" hdd instead of the 2.5" hdd that is recommended for desktop model. Get yourself a 2.5" --> 3.5" hdd cable adaptor. You will need it to get the 3.5" hdd going, and while you are at it you can install a CD drive as well.

As for floppy, get yourself one with a faceplate. Don't expect all PC floppy drives to work straight out of the box though, but some can easily be modified to at least load AmigaDOS disks.

And to your last question; no, you do not need to install Kickstart3.1 roms before you install any drives. You only need to upgrade to Kickstart 3.1 if you are up for it, or want to install OS3.5 or OS3.9.