Amiga 2000

[lassie]

Hi what is the ideal hard disks for a stock Amiga 2000 with 9 mb ram. should i buy a 4 or 9 giga hard disks? the price is the same. but are they to big, i can not remember if there is a max size.

[Darrin]

Depends on your SCSI controller.  Some of the old ones can't handle a hard drive larger than 1GB.  You might even want to consider a SCSI CF card reader so you can prep it/back it up using UAE on a PC.

[lassie]

Depends on your SCSI controller.  Some of the old ones can't handle a hard drive larger than 1GB.  You might even want to consider a SCSI CF card reader so you can prep it/back it up using UAE on a PC.

Hi it is a GVP HC8+ with 8 mb ram on it i have, but i had also heard that it was not sure it could take so big hard disks so mayby a CF card reader was better.

[Ami_GFX]

4gb is the maximum that the Amiga scsi.device can support. I think the GVP gvpscsi.device is the same. This thread and Thomas's faq will tell you all you need to know: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61253

[Plaz]

Hi what is the ideal hard disks for a stock Amiga 2000 with 9 mb ram. should i buy a 4 or 9 giga hard disks? the price is the same. but are they to big, i can not remember if there is a max size.

4gig max on many later controllers. You can buy the 9, but don't use anything beyond the first 4 gig partition or the last 4 gig will overwrite the first 4 gig. Just to be safe make it 3.9gig. The overwrite "feature" works well... I've tested it myself in the past.

Plaz

[lassie]

Hi guys thanks for your answers

[amiga-penn-wchester]

a couple of 3.9 gig drives is more than enough in an A2000! - even with a video toaster!  :-)

[Ami_GFX]

a couple of 3.9 gig drives is more than enough in an A2000! - even with a video toaster!  :-)

Video Toasters aren't that demanding. A stock Amiga 2000 with 6mb ram and something like an 80mb hard drive was standard for a Toaster 2000 and a typical Toaster 4000 was a screamer  on a stock A4000 with 16mb MB fast ram and something like a 200mb ide drive. The Flyer had it's own drive system which was seperate form the Amigas so it didn't require much more in CPU, memory or HD space from the Amiga. Only serious Lightwave rendering on the pro level demanded more serious hardware. These days this could be done much faster with Winuae.

I have a 4gb drive on my A4000 and it is more empty than full. I've got loads of Toaster framestores on it and the mass of them is around 100mb.

[nscaleworld]

Why do you need so much hard drive space?  Less then 1 GB is plenty, especially if you are also using a SCSI ZIP drive and a SCSI CD-Rom drive.

[haywirepc]

unless you have 4 gigs of amiga games to play. :lol:

[Ami_GFX]

More is always better when it comes to hard drives and memory.

4gb of HD space is a lot of room to breath for an Amiga. It's just enough for a bare bones Xp install in a modern PC. There are reasons we love our classic Amigas.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

base VT install is nothing, but if you have a lot of framestores, either stock or self-created, they take up a lot of space.  There are also options for alpha channels, or in essence 3-layer files - so it is some space, but not erm on the order of > 10G of space...

[amiga-penn-wchester]

off topic, but oddly, I was able to install VT2.0 and get it to run within 5 megs on an A2000/030 (1 meg chip and 4 megs fast) and it works reasonably well!  The disk on it is only about 240mb. Amazing if you contrast this to some of today's hardware and software (admittedly it does a lot more now).