Amiga 600 HDD Options ?

[motorollin]

Welcome! Any 2.5" HDD will work in your A600. But by default you will only be able to use 4GB of it. If you want to use more, you will need to either install IDEfix and SFS, or upgrade your ROM chip to 3.1 and use OS3.9 (but that would involve upgrading the CPU and memory on your A600).

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moto

[motorollin]

MickTheLip wrote:
I'm not 100% sure but some A600's do not have a rom capable of installing a HDD

All A600s come with 3.0 which supports hard disks, but only 37.3 and up support booting from HDD. The OP is using 37.3 so it will be ok.

MickTheLip wrote:
If you go for the upgrade to Workbench 3.1 then I think you loose compatability with older games.

I disagree with this. I haven't noticed any difference between 3.0 and 3.1 when it comes to compatibility with old games. Some very old games written for 1.3 don't like 3.x, but I don't think 3.1 will be any different to 3.0 in these cases.

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moto

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little wrote:
I have read here that you can install the 3.1 roms and use WHDLoad to "downgrade" your kickstart when loading games. Anyhow if you install a hard disk you are bound to install WHDLoad (whose primary use is to install floppy games into the hard disk).

Yes that is true, WHDLoad eliminates compatibility issues. But remember that the OP is using a vanilla A600, which means a 68000 processor and 1MB of RAM - WHDLoad needs at least a 68020 and 2MB of RAM.

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moto