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From: lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A2000 and hard disk drives
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Date: 29 Feb 88 01:36:43 GMT
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If you're going to install a hard disk on your A2000, make sure you know the
specs of the drive. The most important two are:
 
     1) half-height drive (assuming you're going to put it into the 5 1/4
        drive slot.
     2) The drive uses the MFM coding (the A2090 controller DOES NOT support
        the RLL format).
 
I picked up a Seagate ST-251 drive (40 meg, 40 ms) for $379+tax at a recent
computer store's warehouse sale here in San Diego (got lucky...only 2 left and
the other one had a whole slew of bad sectors).

Also check the inside of your box, You need to add 4 screws to hold it on
place. (This is an ARGH!! to myself...I didn't have the screws and all the
hardware stores were closed (Sunday)).

The screws needed are 6-32 x 1/4 (or 5/16) machine screws. Oh well....
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