Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hoser.berkeley.edu!bryce
From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Internally mounted floppy on 2000?
Message-ID: <21787@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:23:24 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.21787
Posted: Sat Nov 14 05:23:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 17:42:50 EST
References: <4230007@hpfclq.HP.COM>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Lines: 44

In article <4230007@hpfclq.HP.COM> cunniff@hpfclq.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes:
>
>My question is this:  is it possible to rip the 1010 disk drive out of
>its external case, and plug it in inside the 2000's case?  If so,
>what mounting hardware is required, and where can I get it?

Yes and no.

Electrically: Yes.  All you need to do is plug the cable in the proper
way and set the drive jumper on the motherboard.  WARNING: life is
not complex enough, so drive manufacturer have taken it upon themselves
to complicate it.  Some drive connectors are inverted from others.
If you don't know how to find pin 1, don't do it.

Mechanically: The mouting hardware is not a problem.  The problem will
be how tall the drive is and how the front panel/button sticks out.
On some units you may get acceptable results, other units just won't
work very well.  Try and see.


>As a somewhat related question to 1000->2000 trade in, does anybody
>have a list of naughty software which doesn't work on the 2000 (this
>may include programs which are incompatible with fast memory)?

As far as I know there is *no* software that works on an A1000 with
V1.2 Kickstart and extra memory++ that will not work on an A2000.

Look out for anything from Electronic Arts that is old, and try before
you buy.  Just what was minidos anyway?

Almost all of your "extra memory" problems, if you have any, can be
fixed by "noFASTmem".  (This comes with the machine).  Other good
tools to help brain-dead old software are FixHunk and StealMemBoot.

It's not too much of a problem, really.


++ Something *could* complain about $C00000 memory and it's good
habit of freeing up some chip memory, but I doubt it.

|\ /|  . Ack! (NAK, SOH, EOT)
{o O} . bryce@hoser.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!hoser!bryce
 (")
  U