A1200 Floppy and Harddrive Question

[Mizar]

There used to be a guide on this site about putting in bigger drives I went got a ton of help from some one about it when I restored my A1200 with a 60gig drive.  Works fine and has for a long time.  I wish I could find it again cuz I have a Amiga CD32 with an SX1 I need to repete to process.

Some of us have been having problems with double digit GB 2.5" ATA drives.  Is your HD a 2.5" internal IDE?

[Mizar]

Franko:

Actually I was asking Claw22000 :-).  I know the ones you were trying to install, and that weren't working, on an A1200 were 20gig+ 2.5" IDE.  It seemed to be the same problem I was having, that the WD800BEVE drive wouldn't work on my A1200.  But, I think it may have been a matter of that drive being DOA, much the same as it sounded like happened with your two 20gig+ drives that didn't work, and not some issue with installing it in an A1200.  I think modern HDs can get killed rather easily if someone mishandles them along the way.  Because now I tried a WD3200BEVE and it works!  Same model, just different capacity.  I didn't do anything differently than with the previous one when installing.  Good thing too, cause I need an HD to web browse on my 1200 again, especially since my old PC just died.

Claw22000:

Neither myself nor Franko has a Win PC with USB.  But that wouldn't have helped unfortunately because we had been stuck with dead drives.  :-(