lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) (06/14/88)
I need to set up an Amiga 2000 system in our lab (I convinced them at last!). I'm putting a 5 1/4" floppy in the lower bay and a single 3 1/2" floppy in the upper right bay. This leaves just one 3 1/2" bay for a hard disk. Does anyone know of any good 3 1/2" hard drives out there? If I have to, I'll go external but I'd rather not... Does anyone make non-RLL 30 Meg drives that will fit into a 3 1/2" slot? I don't care if it's SCSI or ST506. Thanks in advance!!!!! ========== IBM is a Division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." - "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" Lyle Levine: Paths -> ihnp4!wuphys!lel Best way: (314)889-6379 uunet!wucs!wuphys!lel
billd@crash.cts.com (Bill D'Camp) (06/16/88)
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I'm using a Rodime 652 20MB SCSI with a Pacific Peripherals Overdrive
card in my BusExpander. I've only had it a couple of weeks, but it seems
to be very nice, and it was only $225. Got it from J.B. Technologies
in Chatsworth, CA. They advertise in Computer Shopper, but if you
don't have a copy of that their number is (818) 709-6400. They had
real good prices on other drives as well. If you call them ask for John
and mention Bill's Boards recommended them, it probably won't get you a better
price, but they seem to be a good outfit and I'd like them to know
we think so. By the way the Overdrive card is working very nicely as well.
It is a SCSI/DMA controller, and will auto-boot ( with changed proms )
when 1.3 comes out. The people at Pacific Peripherals are very responsive
and were kind enough to let us have a card for evaluation in the BusExpander.
That doesn't mean they gave us a freebie, but we can return it after the
evaluation instead of paying for it, although I think we will buy it.
Bill D'Camp
General Partner
Bill's Boards
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Bill's Boards --- peripherals for the Amigaholmes@dasys1.UUCP (David Holmes) (06/24/88)
The one I'm using (with the Bridgeboard) is a Kyocera 3 1/2" RLL drive. I
picked it up from Silicon Valley Computer. They have a fairly wide variety
of 3 1/2" hard drives, everything from MFM, SCSI, RLL, and ESDI. The only
hitch is they'll only sell to an institution or business. The phone
number is (408) 288-8837. I've used quite a few of their drives over the
years and haven't had any problems whatsoever. Usual disclaimer - just a
happy customer.
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(518) 372-0965 or holmesd@union.bitnetrobocop@netmbx.UUCP (Thorsten Ebers) (06/25/88)
In article <3122@crash.cts.com> billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes: >[] > >It is a SCSI/DMA controller, and will auto-boot ( with changed proms ) >when 1.3 comes out.[...] Can you give more details about the overdrive Card ? I wold like to know about the card : 1. Can it be attached to the A1000. 2.Does it need other hardware to attach to the a1000. 3. What ist the price for the card. -- Thorsten -- Thorsten Ebers --> PLEASE DO NOT MAIL OUTSIDE GERMANY <-- Goerresstr.20 --> OUTSIDE GERMANY,POST IT <-- 1000 Berlin 41 robocop@netmbx.UUCP Germany Phone: 030/851 84 60 'Io amore mia amiga,et tu ?'