Although I used the hard drive for most things, back then storage was expensive. My 350MB hard drive cost me £350. So when I invested in an XL Drive 1.76MB I pretty much stopped using the inbuilt floppy drive of the A1200. Was a touch slow but did the job. First thing I do with an Amiga is plug in an XL Drive. Always pleased when I find one when collecting.
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_sept20/a_scuzz_sep20_377.jpghttp://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_may04/a_may04_026.jpgAlso when you ran games like Sensi, before the HD install, you would stick both disks in, one in the internal and one in the external and they would happily disk swap between the drives. One problem I did have occasionally with the VidiAmiga set up was if I had it plugged in it disabled the drive at times. Never did get to the bottom of it.
The XL Drive was great with CrossDOS also for transferring stuff from the PC.
