Yep.
Nope, it's real and necessary if you want a full 2mb Agnus scenario. May as well perform the hack since the 512kb memory in the trap door is slow Fast Ram anyway. lol (no really, it is)
http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/1MBChip
Wedging all that stuff into an A500... you're going to want a beefier power supply for sure, which an A2000 already has. There's definitely a coolness factor to pimping out an A500 though - so you're going to have to decide if that's something you really want to do. Stuffing a HD in an A500's case is kind of BS too, since you have to remove the A500's floppy drive. There goes part of the coolness or feel of the machine - unless you somehow wedge a 2.5" drive in there somewhere.
thank you guys for the reply, I might give this a shot on a relatively clean A500 Rev 5 computer I picked up from Ebay recently.
Save2600 - The only changes inside the 500 were going to be a kickstart 3.1 rom, the DKB 2 meg upgrade and perhaps the mod to move the internal memory to chip memory.
The A530 is the old GVP side car with it's own power supply. I had one back in the early 90's and upset that I sold it when I switch to the x86 in 95. I found one on ebay a few years ago and it's in pretty good condition. It has 1 4MB module and the 68030EC without the FPU. I was looking to change it for the 68030 @ 50 along with a matching FPU and a SCSI->IDE-> 4 GB card.
It also has the 286 card in it. It would be a little out there to see a DOS window on the A500.
I think this is about as much I could max out an A500. Although I also thought about trying to get the A530 working on my A1000. My dream Amiga in the late 80's would have been the '030 A1000 with a 3.1 kick/WB.