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From: rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Drive Advice
Summary: "if I would have only known..."
Keywords: HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION
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Date: 28 Apr 89 21:59:31 GMT
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There have been lots of postings from folks who, after installing
their hard drives, have had various problems with them until someone
here or elsewhere finally gave them that critical piece of information
that they needed.  I'd like very much to put a compilation of such
Amiga-Hard-Drive pearls of wisdom, i.e. what information the manufacturer
often leaves out of the install procedure, or makes extremely difficult
to locate, or just something that, if the user only knew about, he'd
actually be ABLE to understand what the rest of the install document
was all about.

I did capture the hard-drive-blues story in the intro posting to
comp.sys.amiga.tech (from KJohn, I believe), and that certainly
is useful information.  If anyone would like to volunteer other
information, I'd be very grateful.  I have about another week
before I simply HAVE to turn in a few useful paragraphs about
this topic for the second edition of the Amiga Companion.  I'd
be pleased to acknowledge any useful contributions to the topic...
see your name in print :-) :-)

I figure by helping new users this way, it could sell more
Amigas, right?  And thats good for all of us.

Rob Peck