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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Inisin on May 11, 2007, 10:34:13 AM

Title: Random Stuffs i Need help with
Post by: Inisin on May 11, 2007, 10:34:13 AM

Well first of all iam kinda new to this with an amiga 600hd, just bought one. i've had Commodore 64/128 and amiga 500. well anyway when i bought my amiga amiga 600 i didnt get a hdd with it, and so to my first question. Is there a certain Hdd i would need to buy? found some with like 1gb, and that sounds pretty much for an Amiga 600? and when i buy one can install like amiga os or something on it? so i have a running OS on it?

THanks '//elias

Title: Re: Random Stuffs i Need help with
Post by: sir_inferno on May 11, 2007, 10:44:01 AM

i'm sure somebody knowledgable will help you out shortly, but afaik, since the 600 is a stripped down 1200, any old ide hard drive will do (laptop one would be nice and mini, but then you'd have to get a converter). 1gig sounds reasonable. you could definitely install os 3.1 or watever, for 3.9 i'm not sure...it comes on a cd so the contents are likely to be under 650mb so you'd still probably be fine

Title: Re: Random Stuffs i Need help with
Post by: Chain on May 11, 2007, 10:54:25 AM

most important thing will be which version of ROM you actually have inside A600.

http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_205.html

Title: Re: Random Stuffs i Need help with
Post by: amigean on May 11, 2007, 10:58:03 AM

The A600 is basically an A500, with kick 2.0x, ECS chipset, 1mb chipmem and IDE controller all stuffed into a chopped-in-half A1200 case...

You'd have to get a laptop (2.5 inch) IDE HDD if you want fit it inside the case - otherwise you might get a converter for a standard 3.5 inch IDE but it won't be pretty.

I think any HDD under 4gigs will do - and if you have/plan to get 3.1 roms (see www.amigakit.com) and install OS3.9 (also on  amigakit) then you can do without the 4gb barrier.

Another interesting possibility are IDE-to-Compact Flash (memory cards) adapters. You could use a memory card as a HDD, which means that your A600 will be quiet (and loading generally fast). However, memory cards have a limited life-span (number of writes), but that shouldn't be a problem with a stock A600 (i.e. you are unlikely to kill a CF card, since the kind of tasks you are likely to be carrying out won't require much writing). You could even mount the CF card externally and use it to transfer files between your A600 and WinUAE see this cool hack:

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2041=10

oh and welcome to amiga.org!  :-D

(psss did u check Aros?)