Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!aucis!zds-oem!easton From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 problem(s) Message-ID: <1991Jun07.000753.2061@zds-oem.zds.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 00:07:53 GMT References: <1991Jun6.161836.8089@javelin.sim.es.com> Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering Lines: 34 In article <1991Jun6.161836.8089@javelin.sim.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes: >droman@amiglynx.UUCP (Dan Roman) writes: [Talking A3000's here] >No tape drive will fit inside the case, but you do have room for one >more hard or floppy drive. Early A3000's required you to provide your >own cables, but I think this has been corrected. Nope. My brand new 3000/16 (50 Mb HD, 1 floppy) came with the following; Floppy ribbon cable with second drive connector installed, ready to be plugged into a drive. 1 extra 3.5" floppy style DC power connector 1 extra 5.25" (or 3.5" HD) DC power connector 1 SCSI ribbon cable ending in a male (!) connector just after the HD. 1 Bag of screws taped (!) to the empty drive bay. It appears that if you want to add your own second hard disk, you need to provide your own section of ribbon cable, connected to the male header and your new drive. This makes sense since you wouldnt want a foot of cable laying in the case unterminated. The lasted date I could find on my unit was stamped on the floppy drive as Jan. 1991. >Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 Jeff Easton Zenith Data Systems // Systems Engineer \X/ easton%zds-oem@caspian.cs.andrews.edu easton@andrews.edu What? Preemptive Multitasking in only 256K of RAM? :^) :^)