Hitachi 2,5" drive. Can I use it in A1200D

[doctorq]

Hi guys,

I need some more storage room in my trusty old A1200 Desktop. I found a drive which sounds promissing, and it's the following drive :

Hitachi/IBM 08K0632, TravelStar 80GN, 20 GB

It's based on the fluid technology, so I guess it will be lownoise, which I would like it to be.

The question is if I can use it in my Amiga. My guess is that I can and after installation of SFS I can use the harddrives full capacity. I had troubles with a 6 GB IBM disk once, I couldn't save the changes to the drive, but mayby it was because of a broken disk, I don't know.

Does it mather on the Amiga if its IDE66, IDE100 or IDE133?

Are anyone using this kind of disk, or should I avoid Hitachi and go for another manufacturer of harddrives?

[doctorq]

as far as the amiga is concerned, it doesn't care if its UDMA33/66/100/133.

Yeah, I was almost positive about that one, but better safe than sorry :-)

just a shame that the 3.0 roms would only allow me to see the first 8gb of them

Are you sure that it's 8 GB and not 4? The normal saying is that Amiga can't support drives larger than 4 GB. Have you tried installing SFS or PFS? It should do the trick.

[doctorq]

Thanks, I'll remember that. Mayby I should just go for the Hitachi drive then.

 @darksun9210
Try downloading HDInstTools from Aminet. This will give you the correct sizes for your HD. HDToolBox told my that my 6 GB HD was a -1998 MB harddrive! But I still can't save my changes to the drive though :-(