No IDE hack for A1200

[motorollin]

I will shortly be removing all of my IDE devices from my A1200 and installing SCSI replacements. I am therefore faced with a long delay when booting, while Kickstart tries and fails to locate an IDE drive to boot from.

I've seen an A4000 no IDE hack here, and was wondering (a) if anyone has tried it and can vouch for its effectiveness/safeness, and (b) whether it will also work on an A1200.

Thanks!

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moto

[motorollin]

No problem finding a connector - I'll just butcher my 2.5" IDE cable once I've got my SCSI drives up and running. Let's hope I can afford the resistors! :lol:

Thanks for the info.

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moto

[motorollin]

Will do mate. Amigakit don't have any SCSI hard drives in stock atm so I can't migrate totally to SCSI, but once I have I will try this hack and report back.

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moto

[motorollin]

humppa wrote:
So why don't you get your SCSI drive from another store, or for something like 5 EUR on Ebay?

Because I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing when it comes to SCSI. If I buy from Amigakit I know it will be compatible.

Matt_H wrote:
when I migrated to SCSI, leaving the IDE bus completely empty didn't cause any delays at all. Having only a CD drive on it, however, did

Interesting, was this on an A1200? I'll try it without, and see what happens.

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok well if you can show me the right drive to buy for 5 quid on eBay then I'll buy it :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Would this one be ok?

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moto

--EDIT
Oops just noticed it's 80 way. Why is SCSI so complicated?!