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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Simple A1200/HD question
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 14:54:54 GMT
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- My Prognosis is Psychosis... (A.M.Gimblett@cs.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Hi there. Just a quickie...
-
- : A friend of mine works for a company which deals in IDE hard drives,
- : for the PC market. I was thinking of getting a 400Mb drive through
- : him as the prices are veeeery competitive since he works for the
- : company.
-
- : The question:
-
- : Will it work fine with my Amiga 1200?
-
- It should (I hesitate to give an absolute "yes" since somebody is bound
- to pop up with a "it didn't work for me" reply).
-
- You'll probably need to set MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00 for all partitions on the
- drive. (Not a problem, just a requirement.)
-
- Some drives require that the reset line (pin 1) of the IDE cable be cut.
- And many drives are not quite quick enough to spin up to be ready when
- the Amiga is ready, so you may have to do a reset after you initially
- turn it on. If you don't have HDToolBox, you can get RDPrep off Aminet
- as disk/misc/rdp391.lha.
-
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