Setting up an A 1200T: Questions

[fitzsteve]

Hi see Thomas' guide for setting up OS3.9 in WinUAE:

http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/os39uae.html

Suggest you get a 4Way Buffered IDE to connect your HDD/s and CDROM:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=532

Then you can run your PCMCIA network card off the PCMCIA Port but you'll have to swap it with the CF adpater for file transfer or do the file transfers over the network.

Good luck with the project, an A1200 Tower is a great project and there are lots of possibility's where you take it depending on budget and what you want to acheive :-)

If you're intersted I posted the ups and downs of my project over at Amibay, its a huge thread now but lots of info and pics!

http://amibay.com/showthread.php?t=5643

Steve.

[fitzsteve]

fitzsteve:
Thomas' guide looks really great! and that 4way IDE thing can be an idea, but i just remembered that you put the HDD and Floppy in different IDE connectors. So a correct installation would be to put the floppy and CD-rom together and the HDD by itself. Am i right?
 
And thanks for the Amibay link! It looks really intresting! I might find several useful things there

Hi!

No probs for the links, I hope they help

Regarding the 4Way IDE device you connect the HDD and CDROM to that and the device connects to the A1200's IDE header.

You can have them on the same IDE or seperate, it dosen't matter you just need to install IDEFix97 to activate the second IDE header on the 4Way IDE.

As runequester says there are other options such as FastATA or IDEExpress adapters, these add the extra IDE ports but also speed up the data transfer, with a normal 4Way IDE you will get 1.7-2.2mb/sec but with these other (more expensive) options you can acheive 5-8mb/sec which is a nice boost.

The Floppy Drive still connects up to the floppy header on the Motherboard, you just need a longer cable.  I have lots of these in my box of spares so if you need one PM me and I'll hapilly send you for the cost of postage only.

All the best,

Steve.