Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!umturne4 From: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard drives and the A500? Message-ID: <1990Sep14.033635.12447@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 14 Sep 90 03:36:35 GMT References: <30225@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <971@digi.lonestar.org> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 28 In article <971@digi.lonestar.org> jsevinsk@digi.lonestar.org (John Sevinsky) writes: >In article <30225@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes: >> >> Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system >>for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501 >>board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations >>or horror stories they would send me. Thanks. >> >> - FB > >I too will be buying a hard disk soon. I have been thinking about the >Supra Drive 500XP with a 40 MB disk and 2 MB of expansion RAM. I saw it >advertised for $749 from a mail order place. Does anybody know anything >about this disk drive? The drive seems to work fine. Unfortunately, I have not had a lot of time between work and school to do anything extensive with it, wrt putting software on it, putting it through some serious paces, etc. But having come up from using a C-128 6 weeks ago, a 3 Meg A500, two drives with a 40 Meg Hard drive is a dream system! :) Based on net.advice, I ordered my drive from Safe Harbor, in Wisconsin. They have added another satisfied customer to their list, as it came in about the right amount of time, and the price was right. (I actually got charged $20 LESS than the price I was quoted on the phone.) Daryl Turner