A600 and a hard drive

[morcar]

I bought an Amiga 600 and i wanted to get a  hard drive for it. Now i know it has to be a 2.5" HD and i also know if i get a hard drive over 4gb i have to patch the OS to make it see the rest of the drive. Question is is this all right what i know and if so how to i patch the OS ?

thanks

[ddniUK]

Hi before fitting a HDD you must check your ROM version on the  
amiga boot screen. If it is Kickstart 2.05 Rev.V37.299 you will need a ROM upgrade as this Kickstart ROM is missing SCSI.device

Check that then report back here what it is.

[rkauer]

 You need to fill some requirements before put an HD inside your A600:

 - What version is the kickstart? If under 37300, none HD will work.

 - Whit version 37300, up to 40Mb work (don't count on it, I use that version with a 2Gb hd, no flaws).

 - Whit version 37350, up to 2Gb.

 Notice you can buy a newer ROM revision (3.1, aka 40.063) for your A600, habilitating it use up to 4Gb withuot any software hack/patch.

 BTW: you can't use SFS instead FFS because the processor is a humble 68000.

 So the only route is patching the SCSI.device with IDEfix97/99 and applying NSD or TD64 patches after that.