Subj : Re: A600 and A1200 hard disk
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : nikolam
Date : Tue Oct 26 2010 09:36:18

From: nikolam <dukRoMulat@eUReMnEt.rs>

Benny Pedersen wrote:
> Hello Andy!
> 
> 06 Oct 2010 02:53, Andy Ball wrote to All:
> 
>  AB>     What's the highest capacity 2.5" PATA ("IDE") hard disk
>  AB> that an Amiga 600 or Amiga 1200 can use internally?
> 
> to be on the very safe side a 2GB drive - randombytes :)
> 
> its first safe to use any size when that fucking old kickstart roms get
> updated to atleast 3.9 rom code
> 
> and one more i like to see is to have cdrom boot added to any amiga
> where there is ide controller
> 
> the software is there on disks, but why not make a super roms now ?

As i understand, one that has older ROM (3.0) can load newer kickstart
ROM while booting. there are programs for that as I remember.
Maybe one could make smaller partition on disk that could be used until
newer kickstart is loaded into memory.

I have seen numerout times that A1200 have both Hdd and CD/DVD, even
integrated notebook optical drive on left of the case (power for that
drive should be external as I understand).

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