How to add a Compact Flash hard drive to your Amiga 1200 + booting

This video shows how you can use a Compact Flash card as your Amiga 600/1200 hard drive. You will need a "2,5" ide to CF" adapter, a 2,5 ide cable (2x44pin female) and a Compact Flash card. I think 4 gigabyte is the maximum amount Amiga can use, but that should be more than enough for your old Amiga 1200! The Compact Flash card is already formated and has Workbench installed. The preparation and installation of Workbench on the CF can be a real headache and don't expect to format 4 gigabyte very fast on an 7 or 14mhz Amiga! The big advantage of using Compact Flash instead of IDE is that it is completely silent, uses a lot less power (making it possible to add turbocard/cdrom without having to buy a better psu) and is a lot faster than old 2,5" IDE drives.

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[doufas007]

Is CF to 44 Pin IDE Hard Drive Adapter bootable #9692 the adapter you are using in the video?

[TheCommodore64Player]

@doufas007 Yes it autoboots just like a regular amiga 2,5" hard drive.

[Jawattdenn]

I got a better CF2IDE adapter. It has the size of a 2.5" HD and can be screwed to the A1200 HD holder if you drill a few holes.

[TheCommodore64Player]

@Jawattdenn The CF cards are very resistant to damage compared to a regular 2,5" harddrive, so I did not find it necessary to do anything to hold it absolutely still. If you want that you could use regular duct tape. There probably are better commercial solutions to add a CF to the Amiga, but this is by FAR the chepeast solution and you can put it together in a few minutes.

[mensiuscho]

HI all ...... i had a amiga years a go ..and it was great but can anyone tell me what actually we can do with amiga now . i mean whats the benefit in that ? thanks ..

[TheCommodore64Player]

@mensiuscho A 14mhz Amiga with 2mb ram is obviously no match against a modern PC with 3000ghz dual core processor with 4000 mb ram, however, it is fun retro experience if you want to play old games for instance. A CF solution to the amiga is cheap and easy to install and it can literally fit thousands of Amiga games.

[fsphil]

Looks like you have the CF adapter resting on the shield -- you might want to consider some insulation between the two or you'll risk shorting something out.

[antzrhere]

Shouldn't the description say a 44 Pin IDE cable, not 40 pin? It is a 2.5" HDD...

[toendemikkel]

@TheCommodore64Player damn those 3000ghz

[richardmaudsley77]

@FooFighterBiffyClyro Hello my friend, I'm glad to see someone else from the old country. I know this "electricity" thing is new to us all, but none of the western devil's magic boxes can hurt you.

[richardmaudsley77]

@mensiuscho Err, mate whatever you did with it back then, it can still do.

[lordoid]

@FooFighterBiffyClyro A little bit late but: It's because the Refresh Rate of the camera he recorded with didn't match the one on the TV (The Amiga puts out 50hz afaik). It's of course not flickering in "real life" :)

[janmansde3dede]

@mensiuscho However you can add a PPC 200-300 Mhz and 180 MB RAM

And use it as a PC today, it may be not stronger but its OS is great !

(In fact Im typing this on my Amiga)

And When the Amiga X1000 comes out, We will be High end again : )

[FooFighterBiffyClyro]

WTF is wrong with that TV, flickkering all over the place like a bastard

[NeoHoshi]

I recently got a new motherboard for my amiga and transfered the rom and floppy over to it. but upon boot all i now get is a black screen. I have noticed however that my floppy drive is now missing a pin, could anyone check and see what an amiga does if the floppy isnt connected on power up?

It'd be nice to know if its the ROM, my motherboard or just the floppy drive before I spend more on parts.

thanks in advance,

[Jawattdenn]

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