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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: DrDekker on December 14, 2007, 12:51:06 PM

Title: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: DrDekker on December 14, 2007, 12:51:06 PM

Folks - I've got various 'old' HD's knocking about that could be put to good use in my A600 & A1200 Amigas.

Regarding the A600 - what is the largest HD partition supported the 2.05 rom?

Also, what is the largest boot partition supported?

I believe there's at least a couple of revisions which support different sizes.  I can't remember off hand what revision mine is except that the A600 originally shipped with a 30Mb jobby partitioned 10Mb/20Mb system/data respectively.

I've successfully formatted and partitioned a 180Mb(ish) drive using HDTools and install WB 2.1 - but the A600 refuses to boot.  Initially I thought it was the HD not spinning up quickly enough, but it doesn't boot into WB with a soft reset either.   :-?

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Tahoe on December 14, 2007, 12:55:02 PM

Make sure you have Kickstart 37.350. This is needed for drives larger then 40MB. (many 600's shipped with 37.300, or even worse 37.299)

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Flash on December 14, 2007, 01:00:50 PM

Hi,

You could do worse than test using smaller partition sizes.

Yours Flash :madashell:

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: DrDekker on December 14, 2007, 01:06:27 PM

A .300 version sounds frighteningly familiar.

I'll try out a few tests with smaller partitions.

Thanks for the rapid responses guys.
 :-)

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: amiga92570 on December 14, 2007, 01:10:46 PM

also make sure you choose Bootable option for your boot partition in Harddrivetoolbox.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: balrogsoft on December 14, 2007, 01:23:45 PM

I had kickstart 37.300 and i managed to format and install wb on a 512mb harddisk. I read before that 37.300 don't support bigger harddisks than 40mb, but it worked on my A600. Anyway i have installed kickstart 3.1 on my A600.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: adolescent on December 14, 2007, 05:19:28 PM

I had a 1GB and now a 2GB on my 37.300 A600.  I think the 40MB "limit" of 37.300 is a myth.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: 1NOM155 on December 14, 2007, 08:42:03 PM

unfortunately, i cant seek any hdd 2.5 it 40mb or even 4gb :(

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: DoogUK on December 14, 2007, 09:38:08 PM

i think it comes down to the individual 600 and the individual drive...i had the same problem with a 284mb seagate drive, and a 540mb ibm drive.......then tried a 3.25 gig ibm and works fine......trial and error it seems.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: fiat1100d on December 14, 2007, 09:40:03 PM

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adolescent wrote:
I had a 1GB and now a 2GB on my 37.300 A600.  I think the 40MB "limit" of 37.300 is a myth.

I agree, used hard disks bigger than 40 MB with no problems on my A600 equipped with 37.300 ROM.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Matt_H on December 14, 2007, 10:19:32 PM

It seems like we have a thread on this topic every other month.

Ultimate future reference:
Kickstart 2.05 consists of several different revisions.
37.299 - IDE and PCMCIA support is broken. No hard drives will work.
37.300 - IDE drives up to 40MB will work. Drives above that size may work.
37.350 and above - Any drive should work within the 4GB limits of FFS and Commodore's scsi.device. There will probably be trouble upwards of 128GB.

Save yourself the headaches and upgrade to 3.1 (40.63).

EDIT: Fixed revision of 3.1

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: fiat1100d on December 15, 2007, 07:42:22 AM

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Matt_H wrote:

Save yourself the headaches and upgrade to 3.1 (40.68).

3.1 ROM for Amiga 600 is 40.63

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Matt_H on December 15, 2007, 03:14:51 PM

@ fiat1100d

Thanks, corrected it.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: 1NOM155 on December 15, 2007, 03:20:56 PM

so, if i use an IDE - CF 2 / 4 gb with KS 37.300, may be can work :-)

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Tenacious on December 15, 2007, 03:48:13 PM

@ Matt_H

Are you aware of a web site (I obviously missed it) that gives details of all Amiga roms?

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: Thomas on December 15, 2007, 04:54:55 PM

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

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: fiat1100d on December 15, 2007, 05:12:31 PM

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Matt_H wrote:
@ fiat1100d

Thanks, corrected it.

You are welcome.
40.63 is the Kickstart 3.1 version to be used on Amiga computers with 16-bit ROM (single chip), so A500/600/2000 and CDTV. I once found some beta versions of newer code (e.g. 40.70) but it is in a format that cannot be put into a ROM chip, must be used with Commodore developer tools.

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: da9000 on December 16, 2007, 09:49:32 AM

@fiat110d:

Where do you find these things?!?!  :-o

Title: Re: A600 Harddisk Size
Post by: 1NOM155 on December 16, 2007, 06:28:29 PM

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@fiat110d:

Where do you find these things?!?!

i agree.