chucky@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Chuck Yorlano) (03/27/91)
I was wondering how you go about installing a second harddrive in the 2nd floppy bay of the AMIGA 3000. Is an adapter bracket necessary and if so where do I get one. A friend of mine could not get the harddrive to mount flush. It was either too far forward or too far backward. Thanks in advance, Chuck
wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) (03/27/91)
In article <3051@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> chucky@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Chuck Yorlano) writes: >I was wondering how you go about installing a second harddrive >in the 2nd floppy bay of the AMIGA 3000. Is an adapter >bracket necessary and if so where do I get one. > >A friend of mine could not get the harddrive to mount flush. It >was either too far forward or too far backward. > I used the bracket that was included with my A3000's 2nd floppy drive bay. There are several different sets of holes for mounting in that bracket. Having the HD mounted too far back shouldn't be a problem unless you are crimping cables or physically hitting the power supply. Also, some HDs include a faceplate that is not necessary. I removed one from a Seagate St-296n once, so that it would fit in a 2000. Mounting a HD flush is not important like it is with a floppy drive. As long as the HD is physically stable and not going anywhere or in danger of coming in contact with anything electrically, then you're in no danger. In fact you can stack several drives in the same bay if you adhere to this rule and also allow for some ventilation between drives. I posted earlier about the ability to mount up 6 drives in a 3000 if one were to stack like this. I have done it before in several machines. Be advised though, that these drives were the smaller 1/2 ht drives like floppies and Quantum's 50M drives. -- Art Warner wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu Amiga makes it happen.......IBM, Mac, Sun, and Next make it expensive!
wendell@medsys.uucp (Wendell Dingus) (03/29/91)
wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes: >In article <3051@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> chucky@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Chuck Yorlano) writes: >>I was wondering how you go about installing a second harddrive >>in the 2nd floppy bay of the AMIGA 3000. Is an adapter >>bracket necessary and if so where do I get one. >> >>A friend of mine could not get the harddrive to mount flush. It >>was either too far forward or too far backward. >> >I used the bracket that was included with my A3000's 2nd floppy drive bay. [much stuff deleted] I think what Chuck may be having a problem with is a mounting bracket *without* all the extra mounting holes. After trying to install a second HD in an _early_ A3000UX at work, I was ready to fire off a major flame to CBM for not designing that mounting bracket properly. It too wouldn't allow for the mounting of a Quantum 105 properly, and didn't have a big (1") wide power connector, only a micro-sized one.. I ended up drilling some more holes in the bracket, and clamping on an extra large-sized power connector. A week later I go to install an extra hard drive in my machine at home, and the bracket has many more mounting options, and there are power connectors of both sizes. This machine is much newer than the other though... This bracket change, and the addition of the extra power connector was obviously an early A3000 design upgrade. Thank goodness! :-) ----- Wendell Dingus UseNet: ...uunet!medsys!wendell