A1200 & new hard disk installation

[skywalkgr]

Goodmorning to all of you

I've bought a 2,5inch hard disk (Seagate/40GB/4200rpm) and i would like to install it to my a1200.

Which operating system i must choose , in order not having issues partitioning the drive...
And which Filesystem is better (perfomance/file handling) because i want to store a lot of dms images in it.

I have workbench 3.1  :roll: and OS 3.5 , can i use on of them?

[god64]

only os3.5 or higher supports partitions > 2 gb (or was it 4 gb), but be warned, you'll need a lot of ram for validating the partition (>20mb for 4 gb). better skip validation on a standard a1200.

[skywalkgr]

I have a total ammount of 10mb ram (2chip/8fast) on a blizzard-iv 1230 card. So i cant use the drive?

[god64]

you can use it. if i remember correctly, you can skip the bad block detection, aka validation, and directly format the partitions.

[Effy]

Or you just add a 32 or 64 or 128 Mb Ram module to your Blizzard 1230/4  :lol:

[skywalkgr]

@god64 : aha! i understand Thank you very much
@Effy: Where i can buy a memory upgrade module for amiga?

[skywalkgr]

@Effy : I've read your ebay auction I must have one of this modules How will be the cost if you ship this item to Greece?