installing a new HD in an A1200...

[jbuonacc]

i just noticed in the A1200 faq that it uses an IDE hard drive. i though it was scsi for some reason, so this was a bit of a surprise. a few things i'm wondering...

- my current HD is just 80mb. i have a HD in my old IBM laptop which is maybe 6.4gb. what's the largest HD that can be used? can a larger one be used, but the A1200 will only aknowledge a part of it?

- will i need a cable other than the one that's already in there?

- the only reason i think i might be able to do this is that i found a (copy of a) WorkBench 3.1 Install disk which looks like it has all the appropriate HD utilities on it. with this it looks like i should be able to back up the current HD to floppy and then re-install on the new one. sound like it would work? not sure how many floppies this might take though, probably a ton. looks like i've got two partitions - one WB partitionthat has 3029kb in use, and another one that has 27mb used up so far. i'm thinking this'd be more than 60 floppies? there may be some stuff i could delete first, but it'd take some work to figure out what.


i'd be interested in doing this, mainly because i'd like to fill the HD with audio samples which could eat up a lot of space after a while. any advice would be much appreciated. thanks.  

-justin.

[jbuonacc]

[ahh, just noticed i put this in the wrong subforum. please move if able...]

cool, sounds like it shouldn't be too bad. i've been meaning to pick up a modem cable, so i might go that route if it's too much work to do it with floppies. i've got a bunch of disks and not much to do with them for now. we'll see how the 'cleaning' goes. i should probably just buy a different one other than use the one from my laptop though, i like my little old laptop.

i'll look around some more. thanks for the link!

[jbuonacc]

got down to about 18mb. i think i might try to back up to floppy and see how that goes. i guess i'm not in a hurry, but maybe it'd be best to do it now before i fill it up any more.

[jbuonacc]

i'll look into that tonight. i actually think i do have Opus 4 on a disk (maybe not all the files i need, i do think i opened it up though), and i actually have the manual for v5 to help me understand how it works a bit. this might help, thanks for the suggestion! i should have roughly 62mb free on the HD right now, i believe.