ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2018 Entry 8th September 2018: Post 01: Amiga 1200 - Data Protection Amiga 1200 - Data Protection If you have been following my blogs regarding the setting up the external Seagate IDE you will appreciate that I have the Amiga Technologies computer working now with the 3.0 ROM and OS and using a Seagate external IDE hard drive. Took me a while to sort out the MaxTransfer but with that all in hand I have been using VidiAmiga and a DVD player to create some animations in DPaint. The trouble with DPaint animations they can grow bigger than a simple DD floppy disk and or HD to that matter. And so I need to start backing up the drive and this needs another drive to Parnet to. What I generally do is use a specific hard drive connected to Graham, my A1200 in the A1500 case. I am not intending explaining the joys of Graham here. Just check through the INDEX for details. I had thought I would use that second Seagate but sadly I think the days of overuse with my Win95 machine has finally made the drive a little delicate. So I grabbed a Quantum from an old Amiga 4000 and that is proving just fine. Graham is a wonderful machine cus I literally can use hard drives like volumes of books and swap them out and put them on a shelf. First though I needed to get another Amiga Technologies A1200 set up with the IDE. I prep the drives on the bench and then simply transfer to Graham. Unfortunately the computer I wanted to use appears to have the LED lights missing. So I grabbed my big box of A1200 goodies and delved in deep to find some LEDs. Once I had fitted those and installed the A4000HD being mindful of needing to set the MaxTransfer correctly as 0x1F00 to work with the IDE I was ready to transfer to Graham. I have this makeshift bench in one of the main rooms where I swap out all kinds of kit using the 1084s monitor. I have included a picture of the bench listing all that is currently in and around the computer. And so I very quickly had the drive in Graham and with the Parnet connected copied all the data from the Seagate drive that I am using with the VidiAmiga. Tomorrow I plan on installing a good accelerator to the Amiga and moving to a location where I can sit and use in comfort. Anyway this is a record of my fun and games today including some of the contents of my box of Amiga goodies. Dunno where I would be without my stock of spare bits and pieces. Amiga 1200 Data Transfer My busy bench.. used for testing Amigas.

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Last updated 8th September 2018

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