Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!bushido!jamesb From: jamesb@bushido.uucp (Jim Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 2 Hard Drives Message-ID: <1990Aug2.210818.7381@bushido.uucp> Date: 2 Aug 90 21:08:18 GMT References: <90213.182412JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lines: 47 In article <90213.182412JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: >I just bought a second hard drive for my Amiga2000/HD system. It's >a Quantum 105S, so there's no compatibility problem with my 2091 >controller. > >The problem is where to put it in the case? I already have both 3.5" >bays filled, and the lower bay filled with a 3rd floppy, and my >40 meg hard drive is mounted on the 2091. I was told you could buy >a simple frame to mount the drive on but I can't find one. Do they >exist? I have a B2000 (rev 4.3 board) and have a pair of MiniScribe 8425 drives mounted inside the machine. I just made up a couple of aluminum brackets and bolted the drives vertically in the space where the 2630 card would go if I could afford one. One bracket bolts to the front panel, the other to the steel strip that covers the expansion slot just to the rear of the Coprocessor slot. > >Also, one dealer I talked to thought I might be overloading the >power supply. I had been led to believe the 2000's power supply >was capable of handling this much equipment, but could someone >please warn me if I'm wrong?? :-) > I have the two MiniScribe hard drives, two 3 1/2 inch floppys, 2090 controller 8UP card with four megs (DIP), bridgeboard with 5 1/4 drive, hard drive controller, 128K expansion card, and a 2400 baud modem on the bridgeboard side for about a year now with no problems (well, the hard drives refuse to boot up sometimes but I think that's a problem on the 2090 card only happens after running games). > > Kurt >-- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >|| Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || Amigas, Macs, IBM's, C-64's, NeXTs, || >|| 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. || Apple ]['s.... I use 'em all. || >|| Malvern, PA 19355-2214 || (and in that order too! ;-) || >|| jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu --------------------------------------|| >|| jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------- Jim Harvey | Michigan Bell Telephone Co. | "Ask not for whom the Bell Tolls and you 29777 Telegraph Rm 3352 | will only pay station to station rates."