Amiga 1200 Harddrive limitations

[stevil2k]

Hi all,

I am planning on digging out my old Amiga1200 and putting a new harddrive in. I have a couple of spare 3.5" drives lying around and the Amiga is equipped to take such a drive.

My question is, what is the maximum size drive I can use? I seem to remember there is a limit. I got an 8GB drive from an XBox and a 20GB drive lying around.

Thanks for your help, nice to see people wanting to keep such an amazing platform alive.

Stevil©

[stevil2k]

Thanks for the advice.

Am I right in thinking that I could partition the drive? say perhaps split the 8GB drive into 2 + 3 + 3GB Fast File System partitions? or is it a hardware limitation?

I seem to remember that the amiga currently has a 4GB drive in it already.

Thanks for welcoming to the forums have used amigas for the last 15+ years, emulation is fun but its just not the same.

[stevil2k]

Thats what I was thinking, I will look into IDEFix97 see if that helps, If not I have seen a ROM upgrade pack about that I could buy.

Thanks for your help.

Stevil

[stevil2k]

leirbag28:

i just found this in the docs for IDEFix97

"Restrictions of unregistered version: Nag requesters, otherwise full functional."

When I get the rest of my Amiga back I will be testing it and will let you know if it works.

I think you also need a different filesystem for the drive like SFS mentioned by Daedalus

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS/download.htm

I am looking forward to experimenting with it all (spoken like a true amiga geek)