Why is the 1200's internal IDE so Flakey?

[Dwyloc]

Cammy: I didn't realise PFS could be installed on a boot drive.  Wouldn't this require modified ROMs to read/boot?  *confusion*

No the amiga supports storing the hard disk file system used on a special area of the disk (rdb) and loading it in at run time like Linux or windows on the PC and has done so since kickstart 1.3.

[Dwyloc]

Annoying...

Maybe the 1200's were really built as cheaply as some people say.
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1052

Try using a modern harddisk on a PC or MAC of the same age they all have the same problems, in fact a lot of them just can use disk bigger than 8GB's on the built in IDE controller and can't use a lot CF disks on the internal IDE controller, as many CF cards don't comply fully with the IDE standard.

[Dwyloc]

Loadmodule? Hmm downloaded and will see what this does.

So I can boot off PFS without any fancy tricks?


Oh and a typo, I have an old 200mb drive not 200gb

Yes or SFS all you need to do is install it to the hard disk with HDToolbox, but you may as well use PFS now its free.