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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  A Tale of Three Hard Drives ---- Amiga 500/Subsystem
Message-ID: <erk.3082@americ.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 90 22:04:09 GMT
References: <287.26B3D772@afitamy.fidonet.org>
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>In article <287.26B3D772@afitamy.fidonet.org> Steve.Hoult@f39.n228.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Hoult) writes:
>AREA:UUCP_AMIGA
>       [Lots of stuff about various cards not working DELETED]
>
>JN> So, here's the bottom line.  After months of being a fan of the SubSyst
>JN> I have to recommend against it now.  For me, it was a very expensive wa
>JN> to just add a couple of meg to the 500.  If I had to do it all over aga
>JN> I'd just go with an A590-type setup in the first place, and to hell wit
>JN> an A2000 upgrade path.  It sounds good in theory, but it's just not rob
>JN> enough. 

I had problems setting up my A-500 with a subsystem chassis too. The main 
problem is (I found out later) the wimpy power supply that they supply to 
power the beast. I have been running a 2052 2 Meg Ram expansion and a GVP
hardcard (with the drive removed via cabling to an external box) for the last
year with absolutely no problems. That is *AFTER* I hooked up a beefier power
supply to the subsystem.

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