tomd@pierce.UUCP (TJ Dineen) (04/27/88)
Does anyone out there have experience with hard-cards ? Is it better to install a hard card or the internal hard drive by replacing drive 'b:' (a floopy) ? tomd
artw@pnet01.cts.com (Art Weiss) (04/29/88)
I've been using a Miniscribe 30 meg hard disk in my Amiga 2000. It's in
one of the PC-bus slots and it has performed flawlessly. I have it partitioned
for MS-DOS and AmigaDOS. All I had to do was drop it in a slot and it was
ready to go. If I were you I'd keep the floppy and stick in a hard card. The
Miniscribe seems to be a really trouble-free drive. I still find that it is
handy to have a floppy drive B: even with the hard disk.
...Artpechter@dasys1.UUCP (Bill Pechter) (04/30/88)
In article <301@pierce.UUCP> tomd@pierce.UUCP (TJ Dineen) writes: >Does anyone out there have experience with hard-cards ? > >Is it better to install a hard card or the internal hard drive >by replacing drive 'b:' (a floopy) ? In reality there is no difference between the two ways to go. Many of the inexpensive hard cards (LaPine, Western Digital, Osicomm) use a standard WD 1002-WX1 controller with a 3 1/2 inch drive screwed to a card shaped frame. By using the card you are avoiding the mounting problems which you would have installing a hard drive in the place of a floppy. You don't run into 3 mm Metric thread floppy screws not mating with the threads on the hard disk. You don't lose the floppy either so commercial backup programs will alternate between the A and B drives on backup and restore. When the card runs out of space (Like mine did) you can just add a second drive internally where the floppy was or externally from the WD card. The Plus hardcard and some of the other more expensive ones may not allow you to do this. -- Bill Pechter {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!pechter Lakewood Microsystems, 103 Governors Road, Lakewood NJ 08701 (201)370-0709 Evenings Big Electric Cat Public Access Unix, New York, NY