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Old 09-04-2005, 10:47 AM   #1
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how do i add a 2nd hard drive to an a1200?

i have a 2.5, and a buffered interface, and cables, but, if i add it on the second channel, it doesnt seem to like it, or make it appear on workbench,

so this leads me to one conclusion: i have to mount it (like the cd drive also on this channel)
but how do i find out what the parameters are?

or am i completely wrong.

this hard drive has already got workbench on it, is partitioned, and has some games on it, i want to get them off this hd and onto the other one, without backing everything onto floppys :-?
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How is this extra drive supplied with power?
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Old 09-04-2005, 01:55 PM   #3
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i have a 2.5, and a buffered interface, and cables, but, if i add it on the second channel, it doesnt seem to like it, or make it appear on workbench,
Did you get any software with your interface? (IDEFix or Elbox's ATA Driver)
Without it the Amiga doesn't know about the second channel.
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Old 09-04-2005, 02:42 PM   #4
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Leofoe: If its a 2.5 drive its fed throught the ribbon cable.

As for the problem with this drive I can think of two possibilities:
1. 2.5 drives don't usually have Master/Slave jumpers so may not work with anything else on a channel.
2. I had to juggle a LS-120/ZIP/HD/CD on my 4 way interface until the A1200 could see them all at the same time.

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Old 09-04-2005, 03:52 PM   #5
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idefix97

the cdrom is unit 3, its on the second channel, the first hard drive has jumpers on it its a 2.5inch
the second hard drive has jumpers on it

i was just hoping of an easy way to sort this out, but it just looks like buying a 2.5-3.5 hard drive connector and just puttin them in on the middle row of pins, and having a master / slave setup going


btw i have a prototype ide buffer apparently

http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=563[quote]
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Old 09-04-2005, 05:56 PM   #6
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what about 'cable select' for slave/master? It might work if he changes places of HDDs on cable, eh?
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Old 09-05-2005, 02:13 AM   #7
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2.5 drives don't usually have Master/Slave jumpers
i think its not a true,i have a lot of drives (200mb-12gb) and every have master/slave jumpers
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