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From: OSmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
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Subject: Re: Which harddisk?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 18:28:31 GMT
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In article <1679@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> wsinda@wsintt02.info.win.tue.nl
(Dick Alstein) writes:

>I'm thinking about upgrading my A3000 with a harddisk etc...

One thing to bear in mind is you only have one internal podule slot, and
most A3000 hard disks use it so if you want another internal podule you
will be stuffed. I did see one hard disk I quite liked from Oak. With this
one, you plug a ribbon cable into the external podule connector on the
A3000. The podule itself and the hard disk are in the same box. This one
is a SCSI disk. I should point out that I haven't seen this in operation,
but I like the idea.

I wouldn't worry about SCSI being incompatible if I were you. Considering
the fact that an A540 uses SCSIFS for its internal hard disk, if any software
doesn't work (which is highly unlikely) the authors will be under extreme
pressure to fix it. Also a SCSI controller is more flexible than an ST506
controller, you can only have two ST506 drives. With SCSI, you can have more
drives than that, and can attach other types of devices eg. tape streamers,
scanners, other computers (with appropriate software) so I would say SCSI is
a better choice for the future.

Owen.

Nuke 'em 'til they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!