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Offline SirGrahamTopic starter

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A4000 hard disc
« on: October 23, 2012, 07:19:51 PM »
Hello everybody.

I have an A4000 with Phase 5 digital Products CyberSCSI MK2 (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1230) accepting SCSI-2 hard discs. I have only one, which is SCSI and 2.1 gb.

I was thinking about purchasing another one. The ideal thing would be an SCSI-2 one, because of speed (3.8 mb/sec), but i'm thinking about IDE because of size.

Can I install an IDE hard disc in my machine? I think it's possible but not sure. Could I take a PC hard disc, format and use it with my Amiga? What's the biggest size for an Amiga partition? I have Workbench 3.1

Thank you!!!
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Re: A4000 hard disc
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2012, 09:05:00 PM »
Yeah. I also think SCSI option is the best.

I've taken a look to a hard disc which seems to be, mainly, SCSI-3. Here's the link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/50gb-SCSI-50-68pin-Harddrive-Amiga-Video-Toaster-Flyer-Seagate-Barracuda-7200rpm-/280977465603?pt=US_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item416b8fe103#shId

CyberSCSI MK2 is for SCSI-2. Will it work with that hard disc?
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Re: A4000 hard disc
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2012, 09:45:20 PM »
Well, I was thinking about a 50-pin hard disc so I don't need any adapter.

4 gb the maximum size for a partition? I don't care if I have to create several partitions.

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Re: A4000 hard disc
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2012, 08:46:43 PM »
Thank very much for explaining hard discs stuff under Amiga.

It's easy I will use PFS3. I've been reading about it on Aminet and looks promising. 100 gb for a partition is really enough for me.

I should buy a 50 pins hard disc. I could use a 50 m to 68 f for a 68 pins hard disc, but I haven't found many.

Anyway, I'll keep on thinking about this...
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Re: A4000 hard disc
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2012, 07:50:22 PM »
Hello again!!!

I have an SCSI-II 74 Gb Seagate HDD ready to be set up on my Amiga. It's now plugged and has SCSI ID = 3

SCSIConfig detects that the HDD is bigger that 4Gb, says that I need TD64>= 44.4 FFS patch and asks me whether I want to limit the HDD size to 4 Gb. I answer no. As far as I see, I can perform a low level format I haven't done, though.

On the other hand, I've installed PFS3 5.3 but HDInstTools says 'No devices found' one and again.  Please, is PFS3 working on my system?

PFS3 should govern SCSI data movement over Workbench, I think, but what I have now is that Workbench recognizes the HDD in a limited way and PFS3 doesn't even that.

Thank you all.
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