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Offline ProsatanosTopic starter

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A600 HD too slow?
« on: August 05, 2009, 08:11:03 PM »
Hi!
 
I have decieded, to swap the HDD-s in my A600/A1200. Previously all two worked fine. Now, A1200 ok, A600 don't boot. Booting from floppy, no HDD icons in WB. HDToolbox sees the hdd, can be partitioned, after exit from HDToolbox, the icons showed in WB, can use, formatting, etc. After restart, no boot, no icons.
 
After the switching on, immediately before the insert floppy screen, i hear the hdd's reset sound, it is fast sure, that the hdd have not enough time to reset.
 
What can i do, except changing back?
 

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Re: A600 HD too slow?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 08:40:48 PM »
Quote from: Flashlab;518126
I think I read here on A.org about different kickstart revisions that can limit HD use on A600s. Some older versions don't allow drives over a certain size, I believe. I hope someone with more knowledge can help you further! In the meantime you can post your kickstart revision and HD size.
HDD 324 MB :)
Kick 2.05 v37.300
 

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Re: A600 HD too slow?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 07:56:26 AM »
Quote from: Flashlab;518131
"Due to bugs in Kickstart 37.300, the maximum supported size of a hard drive was limited to 40 MB. Everything above this size was a game of chance. In contrast, version 37.350 was capable of supporting hard drives up to 4 GB."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_600

Guess you need a newer kickstart...
Hm... Seems, i'm lucky, the 1GB hdd worked fine...  I need change the flash ic, or it is possible to flash, like pc bios?
 
Thank You