Hiya,
It's been about 10 years since I really used my amiga but lately I've been getting into the emulator. Anyway, I pulled my A1200 out and got it setup. It has a 120meg hard drive and the 3.0 Roms and no expansions/addons. I took an old 2.3 Gig drive and wiped it out and used WinUAE/Workbench3.0/HDToolBox to create new partitions, (a 300 meg and two 1 gig) set the first partition to bootable and installed workbench 3.0 on the drive. The A1200 won't recognize it. If I use the boot menu on the A1200, it just shows the DF0 and CC0 options. If I put the 120meg back in there, it sees it and will boot from it, so the IDE controller is still good. The IDE cable is a 2.5" to 3.5" cable that came with the amiga. (The 120meg drive is a 3.5" drive)
The 2.3 Gig drive will boot under WinUAE.
I found a post on here about someone who used WinUAE to format and install the hard drive successfully so I'm pretty sure it's possible, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Update:
I found an old 550 meg drive and set it up and it works fine. I did manage to get the 2.3gig to show up on the A1200 using HDToolbox, so I partitioned it there. But the partitions still won't show up on the WB screen for me to format them. It also doesn't list DH0/DH1/etc on the boot menu (the 550 meg did even before I formatted it).
At this point I really don't care if I set the 2.3gig drive up using WinUAE or the A1200, as long as I can. :-)
Brandon
