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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: tokyoracer on January 24, 2008, 10:09:53 AM
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As title really, after a working hard drive for my A600 and would be also nice to have WB2.# on it too (A set of disk's preferbly). I have never used this OS but I think it would make a nice change from the WB3.0+ OS's I have used for years. I am preferbly after a Hard Disk that is 40Mb or just under but nothing below 20Mb preferbly.
Thanks for looking. :-)
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I have no idea how valid this is (http://www.brokerscreen.com/manufacture/CONN/pn/CP2044PK.htm) But it is a start. (a fast google search)
And for OS. amigakit have os 2.1 (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=201&osCsid=78915d8d01ffda5d89a5af40a3e5b64c) in stock. They do have 2.5" hdd's as well but the smallest one is 6GB...
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Why just 40MB? Kickstart 2.x can handle a lot more and 40MB drives are completely full in a blink of an eye.
If you want a smaller drive (not tons of Gigabytes), you'd be better looking for a few hundred MBs, or maybe 1 or 2 GB. They're easier to find, and cheaper. And probably a lot more reliable as well..
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@ McVenco, Because the ROM's wont allow more then 40Mb. I think that is the limit anyway.
@ pyrre, $75 is a ridiclus ammount for a hard drive. The AmigaKit link however could be useful. Thasnks. :-)
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tokyoracer wrote:
@ McVenco, Because the ROM's wont allow more then 40Mb. I think that is the limit anyway.
I think that is a myth. I am successfully using a 2 GB drive in my A600 with 37.300. I even put a 8000 MB drive in another one with the same KS version. It was correctly recognized by HDinstTools and I created a 100 MB partition on it, where I installed OS 2.1. I didn't try to create and use partitions in higher areas of the disk yet, but I'll investigate this further as soon as I have time.
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I have a couple of 2.1GB drives but I thought that was far too much. But if they will work then that would be great.
I take it WB2.1 is the highest that is fully comptible with my ROMs?
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tokyoracer wrote:
I have a couple of 2.1GB drives but I thought that was far too much. But if they will work then that would be great.
I'm confident they will work. If the original HDToolbox fails to recognize the drives correctly, you can use HDInstTool from Aminet (http://aminet.net/disk/misc/hdinst.readme) instead.
I take it WB2.1 is the highest that is fully comptible with my ROMs?
Well, which version do you have? If it is 2.05 (37.300 or 37.350), then yes. BTW: If you have 37.299 or below, you'll need to upgrade in order to use a hard disk.
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I will give it a look this evening. I think its a 37.300 or higher. The Aminet HDToolbox sounds like a good option. Thanks again for the help. :-)
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Throw in a couple of Kickstart 3.1's and a cheap, modern big sized 2.5" IDE drive. I have a 40GB hdd in my A600/kick 3.1 without any issues.
Definitely worth it, as opposed to messing around with old, small, noisy and short-lifed hdd's.
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I have 3.1 in my other A600, yes it's good but even with an extra 1Mb of fast it is a tad choppy. I just thought that WB2.# of some sort would be alot smoother. Plus this one doesn't have extra RAM.
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I happend to have 2 very old 2.5" HD's, one is 60MB, the other is 40 I think. Not sure if they have any corrupt areas but I don't think so.
If you're interested send me a PM and I'll send you both for the shipping price. Personally I'd get something bigger though, eBay has plenty very cheap small HD's...
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tokyoracer wrote:
I have 3.1 in my other A600, yes it's good but even with an extra 1Mb of fast it is a tad choppy. I just thought that WB2.# of some sort would be alot smoother. Plus this one doesn't have extra RAM.
I think you're confusing Kickstart 3.1 with Workbench 3.1.
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I think you're confusing Kickstart 3.1 with Workbench 3.1.
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No i'm not, I have 2 A600's. One has 3.1 and WB3.1 and this has 2.05 37.300 and no hard drive at the moment.
As for the ROM itself, it has 2 ROMs on a board. The top is a "37-300 V2.05". The bottom one just says "NEC 315093-02 1988 CBM"
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i've a 3.2 gig in my 600 with the 2.05 rom...and it works a treat!
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Well I managed to dig up a set of 2.05 WB disks (of which I didn't think I had) and can't work out how to install it on one of my 2.1GB drves. It reads it ok but I can get the partition to appear on the Workbench to format. I tried to follow the A1200 method as close as possible but no luck. Are there any tutorials?
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skurk wrote:
I have a 40GB hdd in my A600/kick 3.1 without any issues.
Did you need any patches for that (e.g. patched scsi.device or something)?
@tokyoracer: Did you already partition the drive with HDToolBox or HDInstTool? What is you partition layout?
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Colani1200 wrote:
skurk wrote:
I have a 40GB hdd in my A600/kick 3.1 without any issues.
Did you need any patches for that (e.g. patched scsi.device or something)?
No, it was "plug and play". I don't use the entire disk (yet), and all my partitions are <4GB each.
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@ Colani1200, I used HDToolbox and is only 1 partition (DH0). does it only work with 2?
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If the partition is smaller than 4GB (which naturally is the case on a 2.1 GB disk), it should work... Was the size correctly shown by HDToolBox?
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About 2098MB or something close.
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Colani1200 wrote:
If the partition is smaller than 4GB (which naturally is the case on a 2.1 GB disk), it should work... Was the size correctly shown by HDToolBox?
Not in HDToolBox, but HDInst (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/hdinst) got it right.
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I will give that a go, thanks. :-)
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Ok I have tried HDToolbox but it's no good. It's seems fine of the A1200 but on the A600 it turns German and comes up with an error after it loads up, then it quits on "ok". I can't even get it to work on the normal HDToolbox as it seems to work at first glance but doesn't warm re-boot when you save changes and I can't seem to Ctrl, A, A with it aswell. Once it did work (don't know how I managed it) and did come up with partitions but as soon as I asked it to format I got an error "Insert DF0 Disk" or something like that.
It seems Amiga error's often don't help very much at all most of the time. :madashell: