SCSI HD in A1200

I was thinking how would it be possible to add an internal SCSI Hard Disk to my A1200 which has the Blizzard SCSI addon. Of course, I would like to add a SCSI to SD converter and not a big scsi rotating hard disk.

The reason I am thinking of it is to get rid of the internal IDE which can do 1-1.5 mb/s but the SCSI device can do from 7mb/s to 10mb/s. Also, that device has DMA support, which I am sure will help a lot under heavy CPU usage.

Now, my questions are:
1. Would it be possible to boot from the SCSI disk? I guess that I will need to alter the Rom to do that, right?
2. Which SCSI to SD device would you recommend for internal installation?
3. What kind of cable would I need for connecting it on the Blizzard SCSI addon?
4. Has anyone done something like that and could share some ideas?

The Blizzard scsi-kit IV boots just fine from a scsi-disk.
I have had it for many many years but sadly it's been collecting dust ever since i moved away from using my A1200 in a tower because back then there was no good options to mount a drive internal.

Now time has changed and there is some options out there.
I have been looking at getting a bluescsi with external DB25 connector.

There's other versions out there so why with the external connector you might ask?
Well my scsi-kit was delivered with that kind of cable that could be attached to the scsi-kit, maybe you have that one too lying around somewhere if you bought it new?

It should be posible to place it somewhere inside the case, it will probably look terrible but i dont care.

@walkero
Quote:A SCSI to SATA converter and using a SATA SSD might be a better option, if you need a lot of disk space.
(Or a SCSI SSD, but there are probably only SAS SCSI ones, nothing for ancient SCSI controllers like the one used by the BPPC.)

Quote:You may have to enable it in the BPPC menu (hold <ESC> when booting), but a different ROM shouldn't be required.

There is no AmigaOS 4.x SCSI driver for the BPPC, only for the CSPPC, you can only use it on AmigaOS <= 3.9.

My initial plan for my A1200T back in the day was to expand via IDE, but after trying multiple expanders that simply didn't work I gave up and added a scsi kit to my Blizzard. It was more expensive, but a better decision as it was more expandable.

It worked fine, but with nothing on the internal IDE, took quite a while to boot up.

@daveyw
Quote:Something like https://amigakit.amiga.store/a4000-terminator-amiga-4000-p-831.html should be available for the A1200 as well.

@joerg

Thanks, haven't switched my A1200 on since 2020, if I resurrect it, I might get one.

Nice comments guys. Thank you for sharing.
This is something I would definitely like to test, so I am going to proceed and buy the needed parts. I will let you all know how it goes and if I experience any issues with it.
And also the benefits of switching to SCSI.
My only concern is how I will make them fit inside the A1200 case, where I have many other expansions. We will see.