WTB: 40MB or less 2.5" Hard Disk and WB2.# Disks (including Install)

[tokyoracer]

As title really, after a working hard drive for my A600 and would be also nice to have WB2.# on it too (A set of disk's preferbly). I have never used this OS but I think it would make a nice change from the WB3.0+ OS's I have used for years. I am preferbly after a Hard Disk that is 40Mb or just under but nothing below 20Mb preferbly.

Thanks for looking. :-)

[pyrre]

I have no idea how valid this is But it is a start. (a fast google search)
And for OS. amigakit have os 2.1 in stock. They do have 2.5" hdd's as well but the smallest one is 6GB...

[McVenco]

Why just 40MB? Kickstart 2.x can handle a lot more and 40MB drives are completely full in a blink of an eye.

If you want a smaller drive (not tons of Gigabytes), you'd be better looking for a few hundred MBs, or maybe 1 or 2 GB. They're easier to find, and cheaper. And probably a lot more reliable as well..

[tokyoracer]

@ McVenco, Because the ROM's wont allow more then 40Mb. I think that is the limit anyway.

@ pyrre, $75 is a ridiclus ammount for a hard drive. The AmigaKit link however could be useful. Thasnks. :-)

[Colani1200]

tokyoracer wrote:
@ McVenco, Because the ROM's wont allow more then 40Mb. I think that is the limit anyway.

I think that is a myth. I am successfully using a 2 GB drive in my A600 with 37.300. I even put a 8000 MB drive in another one with the same KS version. It was correctly recognized by HDinstTools and I created a 100 MB partition on it, where I installed OS 2.1. I didn't try to create and use partitions in higher areas of the disk yet, but I'll investigate this further as soon as I have time.

[tokyoracer]

I have a couple of 2.1GB drives but I thought that was far too much. But if they will work then that would be great.

I take it WB2.1 is the highest that is fully comptible with my ROMs?

[Colani1200]

tokyoracer wrote:
I have a couple of 2.1GB drives but I thought that was far too much. But if they will work then that would be great.

I'm confident they will work. If the original HDToolbox fails to recognize the drives correctly, you can use HDInstTool from Aminet instead.

I take it WB2.1 is the highest that is fully comptible with my ROMs?

Well, which version do you have? If it is 2.05 (37.300 or 37.350), then yes. BTW: If you have 37.299 or below, you'll need to upgrade in order to use a hard disk.

[tokyoracer]

I will give it a look this evening. I think its a 37.300 or higher. The Aminet HDToolbox sounds like a good option. Thanks again for the help. :-)

[skurk]

Throw in a couple of Kickstart 3.1's and a cheap, modern big sized 2.5" IDE drive.  I have a 40GB hdd in my A600/kick 3.1 without any issues.

Definitely worth it, as opposed to messing around with old, small, noisy and short-lifed hdd's.

[tokyoracer]

I have 3.1 in my other A600, yes it's good but even with an extra 1Mb of fast it is a tad choppy. I just thought that WB2.# of some sort would be alot smoother. Plus this one doesn't have extra RAM.

[Jose]

I happend to have 2 very old 2.5" HD's, one is 60MB, the other is 40 I think. Not sure if they have any corrupt areas but I don't think so.
If you're interested send me a PM and I'll send you both for the shipping price. Personally I'd get something bigger though, eBay has plenty very cheap small HD's...

:pint:

[skurk]

tokyoracer wrote:
I have 3.1 in my other A600, yes it's good but even with an extra 1Mb of fast it is a tad choppy. I just thought that WB2.# of some sort would be alot smoother. Plus this one doesn't have extra RAM.

I think you're confusing Kickstart 3.1 with Workbench 3.1.

[tokyoracer]

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I think you're confusing Kickstart 3.1 with Workbench 3.1.
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No i'm not, I have 2 A600's. One has 3.1 and WB3.1 and this has 2.05 37.300 and no hard drive at the moment.

As for the ROM itself, it has 2 ROMs on a board. The top is a "37-300 V2.05". The bottom one just says "NEC 315093-02 1988 CBM"

[DoogUK]

i've a 3.2 gig in my 600 with the 2.05 rom...and it works a treat!

[tokyoracer]

Well I managed to dig up a set of 2.05 WB disks (of which I didn't think I had) and can't work out how to install it on one of my 2.1GB drves. It reads it ok but I can get the partition to appear on the Workbench to format. I tried to follow the A1200 method as close as possible but no luck. Are there any tutorials?