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From: wendell@medsys.uucp (Wendell Dingus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AMIGA 3000 INSTALL 2nd Drive
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.003235.23143@medsys.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 91 00:32:35 GMT
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wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:

>In article <3051@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> chucky@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM (Chuck Yorlano) writes:
>>I was wondering how you go about installing a second harddrive
>>in the 2nd floppy bay of the AMIGA 3000.  Is an adapter 
>>bracket necessary and if so where do I get one.  
>>
>>A friend of mine could not get the harddrive to mount flush. It
>>was either too far forward or too far backward.
>>
>I used the bracket that was included with my A3000's 2nd floppy drive bay.  

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I think what Chuck may be having a problem with is a mounting bracket *without*
all the extra mounting holes. After trying to install a second HD in an _early_ 
A3000UX at work, I was ready to fire off a major flame to CBM for not designing
that mounting bracket properly. It too wouldn't allow for the mounting of a
Quantum 105 properly, and didn't have a big (1") wide power connector, only a
micro-sized one.. I ended up drilling some more holes in the bracket, and 
clamping on an extra large-sized power connector. A week later I go to install
an extra hard drive in my machine at home, and the bracket has many more
mounting options, and there are power connectors of both sizes. This machine is 
much newer than the other though...  This bracket change, and the addition of
the extra power connector was obviously an early A3000 design upgrade.
Thank goodness!  :-)

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