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From: cring@hpihoah.HP.COM (Craig Ring)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard drives and the A500?
Message-ID: <4790005@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 90 18:07:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I purchased a Supra 500 XP from Montgomery Grant a few weeks
ago.  So far I have been very happy with it.  I bought it with
512K and added the other 1.5 Meg myself.  The hard drive itself
is made by Connor.  Connor hard drives are used in the Mac 
portable, and have a very good reputation for being fast, reliable
and low power.  According to Supra, no external power supply is
necessary, and I haven't been using one.

The drive has an Amiga bus pass-through, as well as an additional
SCSI port, for adding more SCSI peripherals (like an additional
drive.)  A "game switch" on the back allows you to disable the
hard drive, while keeping the expansion memory available for games
which can use the memory, but not the hard drive.

The hard drive came formatted with FFS, and with 1.3 already installed.
Getting the drive up was as easy as plugging it onto the side of my
Amiga, and turning the Amiga on.  My Amiga autobooted from the hard
drive in a fraction of the time it takes to boot from floppy.

So far I am a satisfied customer.

Craig Ring

Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino
cring@hpihoah.hp.com