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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: ljones on May 12, 2008, 08:37:12 PM

Title: Installing a hard drive/CF card into Amiga 1200
Post by: ljones on May 12, 2008, 08:37:12 PM

Hello all :)

I've just recently got my hands on an amiga 1200. All seems well - no problems, everything checks out, software runs as expected, etc.

The one big problem is that the Amiga 1200 I have has no hard drive, frame or cable.

I also have an Amiga 600 which has the same cradle and cable as the A1200; the A600 has a 40MB hard drive inside it.

I tried putting the hard drive and cradle into the A1200 and it worked fine. No problems :) .

But 40MB isn't very much(!) space and really I wanted to put a much larger (2GB 2.5") hard drive into the A1200. I have one of these, it is an IDE hard drive from an old PC.

I connected this 2GB IDE hard drive (carefully, with the case open!) to the amiga and the A1200 detected it ok, I could partititon it and format it ok.

But then the problem! The Amiga 1200's hard drive cradle has the screwholes right in the *wrong* place! Also the 2GB hard drive sits right down on the bottom of the hard drive  which means if I could screw it in, the bottom of the hard drive would short out on the metal cradle x.x :( .

Is there any way to install such a hard drive in an A1200? The screwholes appear in completely the wrong place; the cradle's holes and the hard drive's holes don't match up.

I did read elsewhere something about installing a CF card reader instead of a hard drive but how is that installed into the hard drive frame? Would its screwholes be in the right place; how do you keep it from shorting out on the metal frame?

Thanks

ljones

Title: Re: Installing a hard drive/CF card into Amiga 1200
Post by: Chain on May 12, 2008, 09:03:20 PM

forget teh craddle for cf :),
it weights almost nothing. you can use piece of selotape for insulating and also for fixing it on the place.
or there are some ready made pads with both sides adhesive

Title: Re: Installing a hard drive/CF card into Amiga 1200
Post by: ljones on May 12, 2008, 09:48:45 PM

Intresting :) . Thanks for the pointer there! That info lead me to this....

http://alan2.rateliff.us/a1200flash/

....which also looks intresting! I'm going to try a CF to IDE converter and try it that way!

Thanks

ljones