psxphill:
My last HD was a Fujitsu 1.5GB, but it was fast enough spinning up to work with a cold boot. The IBM HD I had before that was slower spin up, so I had to reboot like you're saying.
It doesn't appear to be any power issue, and there's a WD HD of the same model I tried (just different capacity) on Vesalia, plus Daedalus has the same model (just different capacity) working on his A1200. So I think you may be right it could be the IDE cable.
Daedalus:
Thanks for checking on your drives. That Western Digital Scorpio is the exact same drive I tried, just different size, the WB800BEVE 80GB. There's also a WB3200BEVE 320GB one listed on Versalia in the Amiga section. Yet the 80GB one didn't spin up at all. The drive was new, it's got to be compatible, the power has got to be sufficient, so I think it's got to be the IDE cable with the problem.
Quoting Franko:
> Using FastATA MKII and ATA3.driver Ver8.x, every drive I have tested (various sizes and
> manufacturers) up to 500GB all work perfectly at PIO4...
> Whereas with the 4xEIDE board on various set ups I've had quite a few problems trying to
> get them to recognise HDs bigger than 60GBs...
Franko:
This is from another thread to do with the A1200 IDE interface. I don't understand, you've been saying nothing larger than 6.5GB has worked, but here you're saying up to 60GB or 500GB works. Is this only with 3.5" drives, or because of an IDE enhancement board?
I'm noticing also, other users are showing 30GB+ drives they have working on their A1200. Such as: rvo nl, psxphill, and Daedalus. Were those Toshiba 30GB and 60GB drives the only ones you tested that didn't work?
Wow, what're you doing that 1TB isn't enough space?
I'd be interested to know if the Western Digital 2.5" HDs work for you too, if you test those.