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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: save2600 on June 04, 2009, 07:33:28 PM
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Okay, so I've got the week from hell going here, but this brought a smile (in a WTF?! kind of way) to me face. Pictured is a 2091, a regular sized HD and that thing in the upper left... that's a beast I just bought off of Red! lol Caught it on his site, the pic showed it to look a little taller than a reg. HD, but at $8, figured I could still make it work. Had originally planned on using it for my A1000.
At 8"D x 5-3/4"W x 3-1/2"H and weighing in at a hefty 8 pounds, this thing is gigantic and weighs a ton!! So much for mounting it to the 2091 ;-) And what about powering that puppy? I'm fresh out of nuclear reactors over here. rotflmao
Anyone out there with a 50-pin 4GB or larger HD they'd care to trade for the 16GB 68 pin drive pictured? I need a 50 pin drive as the adapters I have don't play well with the 2091 & A1000.
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I donno, those cards are really robust! It could take it... easily
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I used to have a drive that size that was only 500MB. I can't remember what I used to power it up... maybe an old PC power supply. A boat anchor for sure. ;-) There's still a drive button in my Opus configuration labeled "Big Kahuna" for that drive.
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TAKE IT APART !!!! would love to see how big its disks are also the magnets on that thing would be very very very powerful. If you were in OZ i would easly swap any HDD for that Monster!!!
And Yes i love taking apart hard drives (Super Geek PORN!).
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Hang loose. I have a collection of hard drives, and a 4GB narrow SCSI sounds awfully familiar.
Uh, I forgot to check... you are in the US, right?
EDIT: Yes you are. Okay, I'll check tonight.
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At 8"D x 5-3/4"W x 3-1/2"H and weighing in at a hefty 8 pounds, this thing is gigantic and weighs a ton!! So much for mounting it to the 2091 ;-) And what about powering that puppy? I'm fresh out of nuclear reactors over here. rotflmao
Hey, I have one of those. Came with a Flyer system I bought years ago. What's really fun with that drive is powering it up and picking it up and holding it in the air. It has amazing centrifugal force!
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@Save2600
LOL! This is a full height (FH) drive, I guess you missed that :-/ Sorry it was bigger than expected ;-)
One note. Depending on your A2091 ROM revision, you may have problems with drives bigger than 1GB.
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Come to think of it I did the exact same thing back in ~2001. I built a homemade 3000T and ordered a full height drive. While it worked, it took up 2x 5.25 drive bays! The weight shocked me a bit. I hadn;t seen a full height drive before that ;-)
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@Save2600
LOL! This is a full height (FH) drive, I guess you missed that :-/ Sorry it was bigger than expected ;-)
One note. Depending on your A2091 ROM revision, you may have problems with drives bigger than 1GB.
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Come to think of it I did the exact same thing back in ~2001. I built a homemade 3000T and ordered a full height drive. While it worked, it took up 2x 5.25 drive bays! The weight shocked me a bit. I hadn;t seen a full height drive before that ;-)
I always thought full-height meant the kind that would fit in a 5-1/4" drive space. Goes to show you never stop learning! lol
And BTW: I have 7.0 ROMS in my main 2091, but haven't tried formatting that puppy yet. Waiting to throw a 3.1 ROM in my A1000 ala a DJBase Kickstart ROM adapter.
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TAKE IT APART !!!! would love to see how big its disks are also the magnets on that thing would be very very very powerful. If you were in OZ i would easly swap any HDD for that Monster!!!
And Yes i love taking apart hard drives (Super Geek PORN!).
No need to destroy a perfectly working boat anchor! lol Already did that to a drive I pulled out of an old IBM to make this lamp... Enjoy the porn :-)
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Door wedges on Scsi cards ?
They must have made them stronger than PC cards
(http://i43.tinypic.com/33xtpat.jpg)
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I've got a couple of them bricks lying around somewhere (Seagate, probably ~400 MB).
In case anyone's interested: PM me. Surely postage to anywhere beyond Germany must be killing...
BTW: The bunch of 18 Gig SCA drives I announced a while ago are still in the pipeline. Hang on!
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I pity your small harddrive! :D
Granted, mine is missing a couple of pieces.. But still.. :P
http://www.brfpyramiden.se/lgh119/DSC01031.JPG
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Lolz Orjan bagged a UFO!
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You guys are pikers;I wish that I had kept the OLD hard drive that was in some surplus stuff in the 1970s!
This platter portion of this drive was about 10 inches across,and 5 or 6 inches high ,round like a BIG Danish cookie tin;there was an attached electronics and wiring block ,all neatly laced and soldered to terminal points(not printed circuits).Belive it was ex-Air Force.
Sold it for $1 at a ham radio flea market just to get it from underfoot;this was before home computers became popular.Still have a few strips packed away from old computer that used vacumn tubes,several tubes and dozens of resistors and capacitors on a narrow metal chassis !Hundreds or even thousands of these strips were plugged into racks to make up ONE computer.I was present for the decommissioning and dismantling of a IBM computer that was cooled by pumping chilled water through 1 inch piping inside the computer.Liquid cooling in a big way!