A1200 Hard drive location in case prob

[JaXanim]

The first hard drive I ever had was an IBM 256Mb 3.5" (standard size) PC model fitted into my A1200 by Trilogic in Bradford.

These 3.5" dives will not sit in a standard Amiga hd carrier, which is designed for the smaller 2.25" laptop ones.

At the time, 250Mb drives were as big as they came and cost around a quid a megabyte. Anyway, the drive was cobbled into the case by cutting part of the sheet metal screening away. I admit to being a little shocked to see this when I eventually opened up the case. Trilogic had authority to break the guarrantee seal on the case and to attach new ones.

The drive was located in place by four of those double-sided sticky pads. All pretty rudimentary considering I paid them £250, eh?

I believe you shouldn't attempt to use a longer cable on the standard Amiga IDE interface, which has 44 pins. The short 44 to 40 stack adapter should be attached to a standard 40 wire IDE ribbon about 3" long.

The 'scsi' drive in your A1200 is actually an IDE drive. All drives in Amigas are referred to as scsi, but that's just a quirk of the Amiga system.

Cheers,

JaX

[JaXanim]

@watchtower

Unless you've no option, go for something other than the 20Gb Samsung. I bought one about four months ago(because they're cheap, as you say)and it's just died completely. No warnings, no noises, nothing. Now, I can't get my Amiga/PowerFlyer to see it wherever I put it. So, all my months of effort is gone. I'll never buy a Samsung ever again.

I'm told Maxtor are the best of the budget priced drives. I just bought a 40Gb one for £35 incl postage. I have all my latest Workbench stuff on a backup Zip, but I'm beginning to wonder if every hard drive should have a similar one holding everything in backup. Is that what we should do?

Cheers,

JaX