Amiga 600 Hard Disk setup

[amigakit]

Thats a bit unfair - we answer many emails helping Amigans every day and contribute to a few forums.  In fact it is a main priority to our make Amiga products more user-friendly that leads us to provide ready-to-go hard disks, network cards etc.

Anyway, apologies for the sparce reply above.
Looking at the problem, Workbench will not allow formatting of the hard disk- have you the correct version of the FastFileSystem in your L: directory?

A standard A600 memory will be fine for formatting of the hard disk drive- although reducing the buffers for the hard disk is an idea.  Also check that the drive's geometry is correctly setup in HDToolbox.

If you dont have access to HDToolbox we stock the AmigaOS Installation floppies.

Hope this helps....

@BenShep

If you are having trouble with the PCMCIA card, email and I will send you the AmigaKit Network CD as a lha file email attachment.  That has a full installer and AmiTCP to get the card working quickly on the Amiga.

[iMacMiga]

Dropping the number of buffers worked the trick. It's now formatting happily (although at 1176 cylinders each on 2 partitions it's gonna and ice-age!!).

Tragic thing is I've just realised I have all the parts necessary to build an Amiga 1200 from the spares and dregs from building my 1200T (I have a spare board, set of 3.0 ROMS, and all the casings, keyboard etc.) except a floppy drive and the only spare I have is in the A600!!

Oh by the way does anyone know which way around the A1200 ROMs go in or a page that tells you?

[amigakit]

Be careful with the ROM installation:

OS 3.0 ROMS
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Top ROM: 391524-01
Bottom ROM: 391523-01

Ensure that the first two pins of the socket are not used as you'll notice that the ROM socket is two pins larger than the actual ROM chip.  Plugging the ROMs incorrectly can damage them...

[iMacMiga]

Cheers matey...

[BenShep]

@amigakit - the occasional helpful post still doesn't justify the spam above.

Thanks but no thanks to the cd - half the fun is learning how to do it so I can help others in the future.

[Doppie1200]

I wouldn't mind a little 'spam' as long as the post is helpfull at the same time. It is good to know what one of the last remaining RELIABLE shops have in stock to help you out.