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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: amigakit on July 11, 2009, 12:45:42 AM

Title: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: amigakit on July 11, 2009, 12:45:42 AM

As the cost of a 1TB hard disk is low now, I ditched my 3x smaller IDE hard disks and replaced them with a single SATA 1TB drive.

I had a problem with HDToolbox on 3.9 so I had to initially prep the drive with HDInstTools and then go back to HDToolbox to install SmartFileSystem 1.279:

(http://www.amigakit.com/images/sata-1tb-a1200.jpg)

The System partition was kept within the first 2GB of the drive and formatted with SFS\01

The other partitions were formatted with SFS\02

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: wlemonds on July 11, 2009, 12:59:27 AM

I've been looking at doing this on my A4000 as well. What IDE to SATA adapter are you using?

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: marcfrick2112 on July 11, 2009, 08:03:13 AM

Agreed, please give us the specifics :) Suffering with an IBM 8.5GB IDE here .....

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: wlemonds on July 14, 2009, 03:42:18 PM

I've been looking for something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812240010

Anyone know if this will work?

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: amigakit on July 14, 2009, 04:28:37 PM

We are putting together SATA adapter pack for FastATA - we have already added it as an option to the FastATA products on our webstore.

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: wlemonds on July 14, 2009, 05:06:33 PM

Quote from: amigakit;515659

We are putting together SATA adapter pack for FastATA - we have already added it as an option to the FastATA products on our webstore.

Ah crap, must of missed it when I ordered one a couple of weeks ago. Guess I'll wait for the stand alone pack.

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: Crumb on July 14, 2009, 05:14:11 PM

@amigakit

remember to create your SFS partitions smaller than 128GB or you'll run into problems

Title: Re: A1200 with 1TB SATA Hard Disk
Post by: chusete on March 17, 2010, 10:50:35 PM

Hi,

I have a SATA to IDE adapter working, but only works as a slave.  
Now I'm using tools/mounter available in os3.9. This program mounts all my partitions in the SATA Disk.

Is there any way to mount the disk without having to run mounter manually?

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I'm answering me...  
solution:
add mounter u=1  in user-startup