30 Mar
2001
30 Mar
'01
8:58 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
AFAIK, yes. The A600 was available with and without
drives and ISTR the
ROMs were different, but I've owned just about every other model than that
and can't comment from personal experience.
Yep. Every A1200 came with an IDE interface.
There are no inbuilt _intentional_ (i.e., marketing
driven) size
limitations
beyond the usual sorts of things one gets trying to
bolt a drive onto a
ten-
year-old system that never conceived of a monsterous
storage device. I
think
there is a general 4Gb limit on disks, SCSI or IDE. I
know there is an
issue
with the FFS and number of blocks in the device. I
have personally never
put
anything over 4Gb on an Amiga, but have had lots of
luck with 20Mb on up
to
1Gb.
The 4Gb problem can be bypassed by purchasing AmigaOS 3.5 /3.9.
The 2.5" connector provides power as well as
data. If you address that
issue,
yes, you can use an adapter to hook a 3.5" device
(or 5.25", like a
CD-ROM)
to your A1200.
The 3.5" hard disk on my A1200 takes power from the disk drive.
> On the hardware side of things, someone said the
1200's IDE controller
is
> basically unbuffered I/O straight to the CPU
(which sounds possible
> certainly with IDE) and so it's real easy to toast things - is that
true?
Eyetech and several other manufacturers sell a 4-way buffered IDE adaptor.
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