jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) (04/04/88)
1st, thanx to everyone who offered help and suggestions on
getting my hard disk to work. You guys are great!
I put together a hard disk system for my 500 that I hoped would
be cheap (comparably), expandable and upgradable. What I got was
Pacific Peripherals Sub 500, an A2090 and ST251 and an external disk drive
case. The biggest problem I had was with the disk drive case. Mounting the
drive caused the B cable (I'm in SDP land) to put pressure on the cable plug
and forced it into a bad position where it would look like it was working
but wasn't (the drive would select, but prep would hang waiting for the
drive to respond.) Then there were problems with power surges from fridges...
Downers: There are 5 switches that have to be turned on in a specific
order for the system to work. The power supply for the Sub 500 is big and
ugly. It turned out to be more expensive than several new ways I've seen
for adding a hard disk to an A500. Waiting for all the parts to come and
wondering if it will work really bites the big one. Putting it together
and debugging it can be frustrating (pray it works the 1st time)
Uppers: My hard disk should work immediately, should I decide to
upgrade, to an A2000/3000. I have an extra slot for another 2000 board
which I can't wait to fill with extra memory. I can easily add another
st506 hard disk and up to 7 SCSI devices with little extra cost other than
the drive itself.
If anyone wants further info, mail me.
Now to start work on some killer games!
--j
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jon wesener
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