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From: ggibeau@ucqais.UUCP (George Gibeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Competitors to the WEDGE?
Message-ID: <1324@ucqais.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 05:47:44 GMT
References: <2776@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
Lines: 24
Keywords: hard disk expansion
Summary: Two ways to hook up IBM HD to amy (at least A1000 that is)

In article <2776@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) writes:
> I have a friend who has offered me a free hard disk if I can figure out a way
> to hook it up to my A500.  Anyone know what I need to do?  According to my
> friend, the drive was formerly used with an IBM PC.  Sorry if this is too
> sketchy, I'm not much of a hardware man; if someone can tell me what I need to
> know, I'll ask my friend for the information.

There are two ways that I know of to interface an IBM HD with an Amiga 1000,
these may also work with a 500.  The first one is to use the CLtd box with
an ST506-SCSI converter card, this will work fine.  The other is a card and
software put out by Palamax.  You build your own card that will allow for the
use of IBM controllers (ie Omnti, western digital, etc) and subsequently IBM
hard drives.  With the palamax card you can also use RLL controllers, hence
getting 50% more space from your disk.  Hope this helps.

George Gibeau (biologist at large despite what my address says)



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