I've just started a new project to upgrade an A1200.

As I'm moving house shortly and will not have as much space for everything to be out and setup at the same time (until I can afford a loft conversion! ) I've decided to upgrade an A1200 for normal use, instead of mostly using my A4000.

To do this I started with a standard A1200 with Kickstart 3.0 roms.

The upgrade will include:

• Kickstart 3.1 roms. *
• Buffered IDE interface *
• 50pin JAE to IDE Adapter *
• IDEFix'97 *
• 40GB HD *
• 24x laptop CD-Rom drive *
• 68030 accelerator (or 4MB fast ram expansion) *
• classicwb install + KGWHD gamepacks *

* = items I already have.

From the list I still need to get hold of a buffered IDE interface to make the project work, and then as and when I find one at a good price, a 68030 (blizzard MK4) accelerator (donations welcome! ), although there is no real rush for that as I will stick a 4MB ram expansion in the system until I get one.

I've only just got hold of some 3.1 roms from Amigakit, and those are installed and working perfectly in the A1200.

I next need to setup the 40GB HD on the PC using WinUAE, and once setup to transfer it to the A1200 to test it. Then I will need to obtain a buffered IDE interface and JAE to IDE adapter to get the CD drive installed into the rear left-hand side of the case, and set IDEFix'97 up..

I will post some pictures of the project as I go along.

BTW, if I stick with Workbench 3.1 (classicWB) and wish to use the whole 40GB of HD space, which third party filing system is the best?
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Nice!! Never heard of that 50 pin to ide adapter... Could you give me some hardware prOn (i gess i got the virus from Zetr0 ) or some info on price and were you buyed it?

Ops... just realized wath is the 50 pin jae to ide adapter, forget the last question
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AmigaKit do a good basic ide controller here it's the one i have. Not the fastest in the world but very Ronseal.
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When are you moving, mate? Are you going to rent a flat or have you bought one? Good luck with moving!

I've used the PFS (Professional File System) and it worked fine. Haven't tried any of the other alternatives though, so can't say if there's a better option. The important thing about PFS was that it worked, and that's probably why I stuck with it. You can try the latest version which is PFS3. Good luck!

Have fun with your upgrade project! Hope you'll be able to find a Blizzard MKIV, but they are both hard to find and expensive.
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the SFS format would be exactly what you are looking for.

Here is guide by our on KG
http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:killergo...winuae_realhdd

some trouble shooting
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...&highlight=sfs

job done m8
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I've recently aquired PFS3 and i can't get it to work at all. I can install it, If i'm lucky i can get a partition to use PFS3 but i can't get it to be recognised. SFS can be tempremental if you go outside the first 4GB but it does work.
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@Buleste

are we talking about the same SFS ? i am not on about the one that comes as standard with any of the OS's....
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I tried the newer one and i couldn't get anyhting to recognose it. Maybe it's just me.
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I have PFS as my fs and it's great - I think it utilises space better, also it's much faster and has a recycle bin, and rarely fragments.
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What OS are you using and how do you configure HDToolbox to recognise the File system??? I've managed to install it but i can't get it to work at all.
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