| From: | David Bateman |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2001 at 15:41:07 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: 2.5"/3.5" hard drives (and a few other Q's) |
Hello Gareth
On 06-Sep-01, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've currently got a 3.5" hard drive in my Amiga, but my girlfriend is
> moving in with me and she has a 2.5" hard drive in hers.
>
> Is it possible for me to put that 2.5" drive in with mine? I read
> somewhere that the buffered interfaces are not capable electronically of
> supporting both types of drive?
>
> If it is possible, I assume that I'd have to use the 2.5" drive as the
> boot drive as it has no Master/Slave jumpers, and then set my 3.5" drive
> to Slave?
>
> Also, is it safe to change the partition names in HDInstTools and NOT lose
> the data on the partition (as it says when I select Save Changes to
> Drive). I'm sure I've changed partition names before without losing
> everything but my girlfriend is a bit apprehensive about it because she
> hasn't backed up her data.
>
> Many thanks for any help. GazChap.
to use a 2.5" drive you need a "stack" cable or somat similar, 2.5" drives
have 44-pin connectors whereas 3.5" use 40-pin i believe.
buy a buffered interface from eyetech, always a good idea...
Regards
EZTower/Amiga A1200
OS3.9/MorphOS/Linux(2.2.10 kernel)/MUIPPC
128MB/PPC 603e(200/040)
2.1Gb HD/8x CD-ROM/PortJnr/USR 56k/250MB ZIP
17" SVGA/BVisionPPC/CGX v4.2(pre 8)
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