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Old 10-18-2003, 05:12 AM   #1
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Hi all,

Ive just installed a EIDE99 buffered interface into my towered 1200 and am having big trouble in finding a HDD that will work with it.

So far Ive only managed to get a really old WD Caviar 2540 to work, other drives just make the Amiga hang on power up.

Drives that havent worked are Seagate ST320014A, WD Caviar 14300 and a IBM Deskstar DLTA-307015.

Should this interface work with any HDD?

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks
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Old 10-18-2003, 06:04 AM   #2
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@jonbach

AFAIK yes.

Can you post your full sys configuration? (OS-scsi.device and so)

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Old 10-18-2003, 07:54 AM   #3
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any hdd will work , any size...

you need to load up hdtoolbox and detect them.

tell us what u did.
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Old 10-18-2003, 09:05 AM   #4
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Any HD will work, as long as it's PIO compatible - and 100% of them are. Well, not all - SATA and SCSI won't, but that goes without saying. But you should be able to go out and buy the biggest and juiciest 160GB ATA/166 UDMA 10,000RPM drive with 8MB of cache and it'll work. You won't get to use much of its power, but it'll work.

Hanging on power up - hmm. Are you sure that its not just a case of failing to boot from cold reset because of spin up? When the computer hangs, try a keyboard reset. Failing that, check the pinouts - set the drive as master (Amiga interfaces don't support CSELECT).
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I dont know how much success youll have 160+ gig drives. Even moddern PCs have issues withthese drives without flully functional 48bit LBA support. Some even have issues with certain 130+ gig drives.
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Amiga is not PC.
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Old 10-18-2003, 12:03 PM   #7
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Well yes - considering the price of these huge drives, Amiga users should still be careful about them. You don't want to spend £300 for a hard drive and find it doesn't work.
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