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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: pyrre on December 15, 2007, 09:30:29 PM
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I have been thinking about doing a A1200 mod myself.
Seeing pictures of already done mods and reading other peoples ideas. I would like to develop one of my own.
Internal CD-rom is a must, buffered IDE is to.
However, speeding up the A1200 is not a goal at the start. That can be done later on.
But replacing the floppy drive with a ZIP drive.
Then my question, is it possible to run a ZIP drive on the A1200 IDE (using a buffered IDE and IDEfix)?
EDIT: I forgot the most important question.
Is it possible to boot from an IDE zip drive?
(i have a working bootable SCSI zip configuration)
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Hi, I use an IDE Zip drive in my A1200t, on a four way splitter. As I remember, the earliest "Eyetech" drivers allowed me to boot from a Zip disk, but the later ones did not. I can't remember the reasoning behind the change, but it may have been due to allowing disk changes after booting from HD. Can anyone elaborate ?
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If you want to boot from a ZIP you have to partion it (read put an RDB on it). Wether the drive will like diskcahnges afterwards is another question....
Formating it as removeable media (with mountfile) will cure that but won't autoboot unless you are able to alter the ROM (with Kickflash or similar).
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I only need/want the bootable option because when the floppy drive go away the zip drive is the only mean to partition/setup the system. And rescuing it if nescesery.
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Hello,
I actually want to do the same stuff with an LS-120 drive in my future Minimig 1200.
The piece of code to add a boot drive during startup is quite straightforward : it is few calls to the expansion.library and dos.library. I have an example in the AT-Apollo.device replacement I wrote 11 years ago.
Regards,
Frederic