I want to resurrect an old amiga 600 hard drive

[vince_6]

You need a USB to IDE 2.5 or an IDE port. I have a SATA-IDE 3.5 2.5 with external power for HD repairing. Plug it on your pc and it will give u a message about to format the drive, select NO. Now run WinUAE and create a std A1200 config and in HD section choose :  Add Hard Drive - Pull down until you find the disk (check capacity next to it if you don't know exactly the device.

HD Controller : IDE0   and check Read/Write
Add PC Drives on startup so you can backup it.

If your disk doesn't boots put a bootable disk of DOpus in Floppy 1.

It works 100%, if you have any questions tell me and we will do it via team viewer.

[vince_6]

Believe me, it does not work if the drive is too old. ATA standards have changed and USB adapters don't support the very old standards.

An enclosure will not work, either, because the drive does not fit into it. Original Amiga drives (40 MB or less) are full-height drives (twice as high as modern 2.5" drives).

I bought two years ago a USB like this. It is only the plug. Front 3.5 rear 2.5 and in the middle SATA, also a power supply came with this. There is no case to put the HD inside. I backed up 170, 40 and even my old A1200 20MB disk with this.

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2618/513eaadqdl.jpg

[vince_6]

I have such, too. I works with every drive I own except the really old one from the A600.

And there are many other people on other forums which have the same experience.

I must admit that I never saw such a double-height 2.5" drive before I opened the A600.

Does the drive still works on Amiga? I have a 20MB "fat" that works OK with the USB.

[vince_6]

Yes, it did work in the Amiga. I finally used Amiga Explorer to make a backup. Now I am no longer interested in it.

I just wanted to warn that it does not work with just any USB adapter because I am not the only one who experienced this. You seem to own the only USB adapter which works with these drives.

I really did't knew that people having problems with that. Dunno, maybe I'm lucky in this part (cause I had many probs so many years with those old machines). Hey, how much will you think I get if I sell it ;-)