Choosing Hard drives

[Leyther1970]

Hi

Can anyone advise if any notebook hard drive is ok for A1200.  On ebay they are expensive considering the size.  I have seen 20gig for 60-70 quid but don't want to pay unless will work

Cheers
Paul

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Leyther1970 wrote:
Can anyone advise if any notebook hard drive is ok for A1200.  On ebay they are expensive considering the size.  I have seen 20gig for 60-70 quid but don't want to pay unless will work

I have a 4,3gig drive on a WB3.1 machine. If you want to use a bigger one you should get OS 3.5 or 3.9.

[mikeymike]

AFAIK there are no known hardware issues with connecting a 2.5" IDE drive to an A1200, however there are software issues regarding being able to use all the space available on the disk.  AFAIK these are all possible to overcome with relative ease, but I've never had the problem as I'm using an 880MB disk.  Other people here should be able to clue you in on that (I don't think it necessarily means upgrading OS, but not sure).

[asian1]

Hello
I want to ask about Hard Drive for AmigaOne.
Is it possible to use Adaptec SCSI or other SCSI
card with AmigaOne?

What is the maximum capacity of EIDE / Serial ATA
supported by AmigaOne? What version of SATA supported
by AmigaOne?

[Webba]

Well

It has been reported that at least  Adaptec SCSI cards work, of course at this time with Linux only. I don't know which models though.

Can't say about the SATA thing, probably if somebody writes drivers for some PCI SATA cards.

About the maximum size, at least my 80GB drive didn't have any problems.

[Leyther1970]

I have just upgraded to 3.5 OS.  I have 1 gig drive but looking to have maybe 20gig, which like I mentioned they are reasonable at 60-70 quid.  Just wanted to know if the cable is same type, because being a PC man the PC has separate power to PSU and ide cable, but Amiga of course has data cable and power in one, I have heard they work same as laptop but wanted to check with someone that has done this b4 splashing hard earned cash.

Cheers

[LP]

I've got a 30GB harddrive from a laptop runing fine under OS3.9... Just remember to keep the partions in reasonble size like 3GB per partion or similar...

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Leyther1970 wrote:
I have just upgraded to 3.5 OS.  I have 1 gig drive but looking to have maybe 20gig, which like I mentioned they are reasonable at 60-70 quid.  Just wanted to know if the cable is same type, because being a PC man the PC has separate power to PSU and ide cable, but Amiga of course has data cable and power in one, I have heard they work same as laptop but wanted to check with someone that has done this b4 splashing hard earned cash.

If both drives are 2.5" then you can use the original cable.  2.5" drives use 44pin IDE cable and 3.5" drives use 40pin cable.

[Leyther1970]

Thanks all

[Brian]

I would just like to add a quick note about heat. I got my hands on a 2.1Gb IBM harddrive and it seems most IBM drives get extremely hot. Was told that IBM drives do get hot and they've just now started to fix the problem on 70+gb drives. So if you got some addons in the mashine such as Apollo/Viper040/060 boards with the CPU facing inwards the mashine and perhaps some clockport hardware and such then you might want to avoid the IBM brand.

(Due to the fact that I have an internal scandoubler the original HD holder doesn't fit and so I though I would just let the HD lay ontop of the board in an antistaticbag but it got so hot it melted the glue that was on the scandoubler underneath so I had to make a custom HD holder for it right away.)

[Athlon]

IBM drives as well as Maxtor seems to run on the hot side I think. I find Western Digital and Samsung work well in lap tops because the run cool . . .  Also Seagate is another viable choice.