WB 3.0 HDD Install

[dougal]

Hi all,

I am going to replace the old style 85MB HDD in my A1200 with an 4GB CF Card HDD. I have seen that I need an disk called "install" but when I got the 1200 with the full WB set, there was just 5 disks. Isn't the Install disk a part of the official WB 3.0 release?

And where can I get some extra RAM for my 1200? I have checked on the net, but it seems difficult to find...

V.

If you don't have the install disk , you could try buying it from ebay or something or else download an ADF of it and use adf2disk or something to write it to a floppy disk .

With regards to extra ram , it depends on how much you want to spend , but your best option is to buy a good accelerator card like the Blizzard 1230 and simply add cheap pc simms . You can go as far as 64 or im not sure 128Mb .

[dougal]

Tokyoracer:

That explains it then I bought an A1200 with HDD, but the seller put in the HDD as an extra, so the original WB set I got was the one for the A1200 w/o HDD. I bought both an A1200 and an A600 + some other things from Airey36, so I guess I will just write him and see if he can help me


Dougal:

I have seen some of those cards, but the are quite expensive :S But then again I have just looked on ebay. Do you know any other places where they might have those cards for an reasonable price?

V.

Yes , i would expect them to cost around 150 Euros give or take .

If you are in no rush there are bargains to be found , but not very often . The first one i bought costed me around 115 euros and the second one , i bought a second hand boxed Amiga Technologies A1200HD for 50 euros and found a nice surprise when i opened the trap door

But honestly , you really do get what you pay for as the speed increase especially in workbench is incredible .