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[Bandis]

This is possible
 :-D

Oh and welcome back to amigaland

[Bandis]

You should have a AmigaOS 2.xx disk called Install. that one is used to install amiga OS on HD, partition it etc.

But like bloodline suggest, upgrading to OS 3.1 is recommended. That would include new rom chip and disks.

Then its basicly down to what you want.
To take advantage of the full 40gb hd out of the box I would recommend a IDE interface from  ELBOX. It ships with lba48 adressing modes drivers and with added features of CD/DVD drivers and an additional IDE port.

To get the fastest performance I would recommend SFS filesystem aswell.

so to sum it up: this would be recommended.

OS 3.1 floppy set
OS 3.1 Rom A600

Elbox IDE interface

If you know your way around EBAY you can get this considerably cheaper.

Next you should perhaps forget about os 3.9 and above. you can get 3.1 fairly up to speed with the updates classicWB contains.

hope this helps

[Bandis]

Oh
I just read that ONLY A600 WITH HD shipped with the Install disk.

 :getmad:

[Bandis]

Smart Filesystem requires 68020 or better and OS 3.0 or better, thats true. So an Accelerator would be needed.

The Elbox interface I linked to says A600 and when I look on Elbox own page that seems to be the case aswell.

The new A600 memory upgrade is very promising, I follow its development as close as I can bec it holds promise for A500 owners aswell.  :-) I hope they will make it work with IDE and perhaps 68020/030 features aswell