I just got the Indivision for my A1200. How should the hard drive be mounted after the Indivsion is installed?

Even if the RF shield is modified, the hard drive would still have to sit directly on top of the indivsion, right?

I'm going to use a CF card reader such as this...  

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2635=10

I have the reader, just no Indivision... One day, i hope...    If you still have a "real" hard drive in the system, you're going to have to get creative.

Thanks for the ideas.

I tried laying the hard drive on the Indivision, but I get whacky colors when I do that. I get whacky colors if I look at my A1200 crooked while the Indivision is installed :-o (that's delicate mounting method for the Indivision...)

I thought about a CF for a hard drive, but I think I'm gonna have to rethink things anyway, because I also got a Apollo 1240 accelerator, and I don't see anyway that the stock keyboard can be used with it installed, so a tower case seems like it might be the only real solution. A tower case would allow me to install one or more hard drives, away from the motherboard and the Indivision.

brianb wrote:
That's weird about the indivision and colors.  You sure it made a good connection when you installed?   What are your thoughts on the Indivision board so far?   I'm thinking of getting one, and curious on peoples experiences...

thanks.

It's a delicate connection. If you don't get it seated correctly, you get real funky colors, or worse... I've gotten it seated real well, so it works properly, but I've screwed it up by just digging around inside my A1200 installing an accelerator, or moving the hard drive around. It doesn't take much to jog it loose enough to screw it up.

I really like it, but I wish there were more screen modes available than what come with HighGFX40 (which I had to get from Aminet). 1024x768 makes for really tiny icons and text on a 15 inch monitor. I will eventually hook it to a bigger monitor, but not until I finish upgrading my A1200.

Along the upgrade note - my unacclerated A1200 is real slow in 1024x768 mode with the Indivision. Windows open and close real slow...

One other note - I haven't figured out what to do about my hard drive, and the RF shield - and I get some narly looking vertical bands on my display. The monitor works fine on other machines, so it's not the monitor.

I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I managed to fit the hard drive back in the case and close it all up.  I think I duct taped some cardboard over the hole left by cutting away the rf shield with my dremel.  I took off the drive sled and taped the drive with duct tape to the cardboard.  It was all fairly secure when I finished, but how long that will last, I don't know.  

brianb wrote:
I was under the impression the indivision could handle just about any resolution, both ntsc or pal.  Not true?  Or are you just talking about more hires modes?

Anything over 640x480 32color gets to be a dog on a stock A1200... IMHO

Do you need the rf shield?  I'm debating on modification or just removing...   Some people go without, and have no issue...

good luck...
 

I think the max it will do is 1024x768, but I haven't played with it much yet so I'm not sure. I'm running basic NTSC high res laced for the moment, while I'm playing with some other upgrades, so that I still have a display on my stock Amiga monitor if something goes wrong...

I really wish I'd been aware of this before forking over the money for an Indivision a few days ago. I'm actually kinda pissed off reading this, it would've been a helpful thing to put in the Indivision marketing information. I most likely wouldn't have bought one had I been fully informed, which perhaps is why they conveniently neglected to leave such a critical piece of information out.

If I can't figure out a way to get a hard drive to fit in there with the Indivision, I'm going to go from "kinda pissed off" to "fucking furious" real quick.

@murple: My hard drive is just laying on the Indivision now, and everything is working OK now. I must have finally gotten the Indivision seated good the last time. I do not have the RF shield installed.

As save2600 said, you can probably move the hard drive, provided you have enough cable. But I think you will still need to cut out part of the RF shield where the Indivision sits.