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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: amigadave on December 24, 2005, 05:57:52 AM

Title: SCA hard drives used in Amigas?
Post by: amigadave on December 24, 2005, 05:57:52 AM

I have recently purchased 5 - 4gb hd to use as the primary boot drives in several of my A4000 & A3000 Amigas.  I just ordered adapters for them that will accept both 50pin and 68pin cables, come with active termination, a power connector, and have SCSI ID jumper blocks to set the ID numbers, so I am hoping I have made the correct choices to get these working.  The drives are all Seagate Barracuda ST34371WC's which have an unformatted size of 5.31gb and formatted capacity of 4.55gb.  Couple of questions - If I partition the drives with 2 equal partitions w/ OS3.1 will I have a problem with the size of the drive being over 4gb.  I am assuming that this is not an issue for my machines that already have OS 3.9 installed.  2nd question, do any of you have any experience, advice or warnings about using these drives with adapters in Amigas.  They will be connected to WarpEngine controllers, CyberStorm controllers and a TekMagic controller in my A2000.

Title: Re: SCA hard drives used in Amigas?
Post by: leofoe on December 24, 2005, 08:29:47 AM

I had a Seagate Barracuda SCA via an adapter connected to the 50-pin head of an A2091. Worked, but it's bulky.
With OS3.1 I thought it's wise to stay under 2GB for the boot partition and under 4GB for the remaining partitions. Don't know for OS3.9. Lots of threads about this here. So easy to find.

Title: Re: SCA hard drives used in Amigas?
Post by: Tahoe on December 24, 2005, 09:38:02 AM

I have  a 73GB 10K SCA drive on my Cyberstorm, works fine! Termination is on the cable itself, not the drive!

Title: Re: SCA hard drives used in Amigas?
Post by: buzz on December 24, 2005, 10:34:09 AM

I hope you didn't pay anything much for the disks. They go so cheap now. I bought some 18gb UW disks from ebay for £10 each a couple of years ago.

Anyway, I also use a 73gb uw scsi on my cyberstormppc. works great.. I put one the the 18gb disks in the a1200 on the blizzardppc which also works well (While the dangerous handmade cable I bought from amigakit lasts :-) )

Title: Re: SCA hard drives used in Amigas?
Post by: amigadave on December 24, 2005, 09:32:21 PM

Thanks for the replies.  No, I did not pay much for the drives, I think it was about $5 each plus shipping.  I thought 4gb would be a good size for my system drives on my Flyer and VLAB Motion systems, with larger drives for the video content.