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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive Questions
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 23:26:40 GMT
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- On 04-Jan-96 09:39:20 dukat@suba.com Lawrence Wilson wrote:
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- >I am looking to buy a 1200 and a Dataflyer SCSI adapter. I would like to
- >use the hard drive from my GVP A530 in an external casing so that I won't
- >have to transfer files in between my 500 and my 1200. Now, here's the
- >question:
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- If you're talking about the SCSI+ that plugs onto the IDE header on the
- motherboard of the 1200, *DON'T* buy it. It will cause you more trouble than
- it's worth. Buy a SquirrelSCSI adapter instead. It's higher quality and
- doesn't screw with the internal workings of your 1200.
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- >Even though the 530's hard drive is formated for Workbench 2.1, can I use
- >this drive with the 1200--even if it's just mounted as a non-bootable disk?
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- Yes. No problems here. The filesystems are included with the 1200.
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