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From: William Chan
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Date: 25 May 90 14:57:00 GMT
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    Entered: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 10:39 Fri May 25/90
    Subject: MaxHD A2000 Hard Drive
 
    plw@sgfb.ssd.ray.com wrote:
    >A fellow Amiga owner got a flyer in the mail from Ingenuity, Inc. advertising
    >their MaxHD A2000 hard drive.  Stamped on the outside of the flyer is
    >"SPECIAL OFFER  20 MEG $299  40 MEG $399."
 
    >Sounds like a reasonable price for this unit.  Anyone have any experience
    >with this product?...with this company?
 
 
    A friend of mine got the 40 MEG hard drive for his A2000 in his lab.
   It worked resonably well.  It is not blazingly fast, but it is
   adequate.  The drive is 3 1/2" and is mounted on the board.  The
   mount is rather flimsy since the board does not have a back plate
   which allows you to attach it to the back of the machine.  So, for
   safety, you're have to mount it in the floppy drive bay.  The ribbon
   that comes with the drive is quite short, so if it is mounted on
   the bay, you'll have to make a new one. 
 
   One major feature that is missing in this drive is the ability to
   AUTOBOOT, so you'll have to boot off the floppy drive that is 
   supplied along with the package. 
 
   The documentation of the package is also rather poor.  There was
   no mention of any hard drive utilities (ie: low level format, 
   partitioning).  These programs are supposedly on the hard drive
   and the startup floppy, but they are not apparent.  The company
   is sending those instruction to my friend separatedly. 
 
   All in all, it is a pretty decent drive, and would work well
   as a secondary fixed disk.  But because of the lack of autoboot
   it would not work as well as the primary hard drive.  But for the
   price, I think it is worth it!
 
   BTW, does anyone know whether AE release the high density 3 1/2"
   floopy drive for the Amiga yet???
 
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