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From: dodd@uncw.UUCP (Mike Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Sidecar Hard Disk Help
Message-ID: <982@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 02:09:15 GMT
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Reply-To: dodd@uncw.UUCP (Mike Dodd)
Organization: Univ. N. C. at Wilmington, CS & Math Dept.
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I am planning to purchase a HD soon and don't know ANYTHING about them.
I was under the impression that I could purchase any harddrive until
I was thumbing through the ads in a magazine devoted to IBM (-yuck). I
am planning on partitioning half to the Amiga and the other to the 
IBM side.  I was hoping that someone more learned than I could point
me in the right direction.  

Am I limited to 'hard cards' of at most 20MB? (as the Sidecar manual
	suggests)
I do not plan to store any great amounts on the drive, I hope to use 
	it when compiling, or downloading files, etc.   How much
        space would you recomment - 20, 40, 80, 120 etc etc
What do the RLL, and all the other 'codes' mean?
Is it assumed you have a bay to slip the drive into?
How reliable is this hard drive set-up (Two brains - Zaphod Beeblebrox)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.