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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: List of Harddrives that fit in 3 1/2" slot
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Date: 20 May 88 02:51:41 GMT
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In article <6433@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM| wpl@anarchy.PRC.Unisys.COM (William P Loftus) writes:
|I bought a ST125 at a computer show in my home town, and I was very suprised
|to find that it couldn't be mounted in the 3 1/2 inch slot, at least
|myself, and about ten dealers couldn't figure out how.  (One dealer,
|said that ST506 3 1/2" drives except to be mounted from the sides,
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I this english? What do you mean?

|not the bottom).
|So anyway, don't buy an ST125 for your 2000.
|Now, does anyone have a list of all the hardrives 5 1/4" and 3 1/2"
|that have worked in the amiga (including being able to mount them).
|If not I would be willing to manage (read keep) an updated list of
|drives known to work for the Amiga, and post it once in a while.

3 1/2" Miniscribe drives (the 8000 series) do mount fine on the "small"
slot (the one left of df0:). I have an 8438.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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