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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 500 hard drives (esp. Supra and GVP)
Message-ID: <418@grape3.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 22:41:22 GMT
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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Summary:

I'm looking for a good hard drive for my 500.  I've really got very simple
requirments:

     o 40 Meg or better
     o MUST allow for memory expansion (either provide its own sockets or
       pass the expansion bus through; preferably the former)
     o MUST not be so honking big that it interferes with me hitting the
       ESCape key, or anything else on the left side of the keyboard

And a couple "it would be nice, but I don't really need it" items:

     o Auto-boot
     o Ability to daisy-chain additional SCSI devices

I've been looking at the GVP Impact 500 and Supra's hard drive for the 500
and both seem to fit the bill.  My biggest question is about the Supra: will
it interfere with the keyboard?  The picture shows it as a great whopping
box, but it doesn't indicate how far back it sits.  (The GVP is also a great
whopping box, but it's pictured connected to a 500 and sitting back out of
the way.)

Can anyone tell me about these two drives, or suggest any others that would
fit my requirements?  I'm really feeling the crunch here; running ARexx off
of floppies is NOT a fun thing to do!  Email replies please, and I'll post
a summary.

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