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From: macdona@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (magundi ( John A A MacDonald ))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: A500 controlers without the drive
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Date: 30 Mar 91 23:01:36 GMT
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In article <22717@know.pws.bull.com> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes:
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>Does anyone know of any other controlers that are available seperately or of
>a better price on the above boards?  I will be pushing my meager budget to
>the limits on this one so every dollar counts.

One way to go is to get a XETEC controller.
For $175 you get an autobooting SCSI controller.
It is a small square box that fits on the side of the 500.
It is not possible to have a hard drive inside the unit, it has to be external.
For $275 you can get their controller and a external powered box to put a 
5.25" or 3.5" drive in.
They have a Ram card that plugs  into the controller and has four
sockets for SIMM's.  The board costs $75 and the last time I bought
1 Meg SIMM's I could get them for $39 /meg.

My setup right now is a xetec controler with 4Megs and a
ST125N (21 Meg ) and a ST296N (82 Meg ) drive.  Both drives have
20 Meg AMAX partitions.  I am personally very happy with it and have
had only one problem with it and that was caused by my 500 not the
Controller.

john macdonald
amiga@uwo.ca