BiiiiiiiiiiiiiG Hard Drive! HELP!!!

[mantisspider]

Hi guys,

I visit my folks place and found and Amiga500+ (with 2Mb ChipRam WOOHOO) and an Amiga1200 with 32Mb and what looks like a processor of somekind.
However I only found one Amiga PSU and it wasnt working.

This got me thinking, just how far I can push my little A1200.
Whats the biggest harddrive that can be stuck in an Amiga nowadays? Do you really need a PowerFlyer to increase performance or are there newer alternatives?

My A1200T is getting lonely, would be nice to have two A1200T's. Shame about the A500+

Thanks guys.

[lempkee]

if its ide , then a powerflyer is one option , but you dont need a powerflyer to use big hdd's , i use big hdd's (+160gb) and i have no probs with them on eide 99 , idefix 4way adapter , powerflyer)

partsions are as high as 75gb , dont need em to be bigger, anyway you should use SFS or PFS 1,2,3 on the big hdd + system "MUST" be on the first sectors on your hdd (not bigger than 4gb).

cool that u found all them gizmos! ..

good luck!

pps: afaik u can hook up that hd with no problem even on the normal pio0 controller thats in your a1200. (but i am not 100% sure...)

and for speed... yes an powerflyer is the only REAL option then , or get an scsi2ide adapter so yo can hook up an ide drive to your scsi chain (if u have that)

[mantisspider]

cheers m8