Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!gunther
From: gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3 drives at once
Message-ID: <3241@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 14:33:30 GMT
References: <3667@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3667@umix.cc.umich.edu> Marcus_Siskin@um.cc.umich.edu writes:
> 
>    Has anyone installed a Hard Drive in this situation?  If so WHERE????
>    Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
>  
>    Like the tailor who got 7 at once, a customer at the Dealership I work part
>    time at wants to put a hard disk in his A2K to compliment the two internal
>    floppies and 5.25 drive he already has installed.  The HD would be driven
>  off the 2090 card and he would like to have it internal to the computer.

     Anyone having a maximum configuration system has faced this problem.
     My solution is fairly simple and allows two (2) 3.5 inch hard drives to
     be added internally.  Get a simple hardcard bracket designed for an IBM-PC
     I don't know of a place you can get one, I just had some lying around.
     There should be predrilled holes onto which you can cleanly mount the
     first hard drive.  To add a second you probably have to do some drilling
     or something.  Where's a good place to put it in a 2000?  I put mine in
     first 100 pin slot to the left the 86 pin CPU slot.  This still leaves
     four (4) Amiga slots (one is a little tight because of screws) and the
     CPU slot free with plenty of room for the drives.  Being paronoid about
     shorts(my bracket was metal, I taped over the slot connector with
     electrical tape (useful stuff, I always carry it with me, you know, like
     MacGyver and duct tape, ha ha).  If you add two internal drives and
     already have a 5.25 inch floppy, you'll need a y-adapter for power. 
     BTW, I have a system with two 3.5 inch floppies, a 5.25 inch floppy,
     two 3.5 inch 20 meg ST-506 hard drives and A2090, A2052, A2088 and 
     20 meg IBM hardcard , and, getting to the point, my B2000 power supply
     has no problem handling this, so there.

>    Marc Siskin
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