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Offline viviancerTopic starter

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Can Amiga 1200 work with SCSI HD drives???
« on: November 11, 2003, 05:03:52 PM »
I have Amiga 1200 rom 3.0 2mb ram ...  i want to buy hd drive for her. Can a1200 support SCSI drives? :-?
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Re: Can Amiga 1200 work with SCSI HD drives???
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2003, 06:13:04 PM »
You can buy a 'Squirrel' SCSI interface, which fits in the PCMCIA port. These are cheap, but quite slow...
see:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/squirrel.html
but you would still need to boot from a floppy disk

A better idea would be to buy a 2.5" IDE hard disk (laptop hard disk) and fit it inside your A1200 and you can boot Workbench from this (the A1200 has a 40-pin IDE connector inside).  If you give me your address [using pmail], I can send you a small one (only 40MB, sorry) for free, but you will need a cable...

edit: Here is a picture of the inside of an A1200, showing a 2.5HD (shamelessly pinched from Jaruzel's site)
http://www.jaruzel.com/amiga/img/main/NewHDD.jpg

Anyone help with the cable?
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