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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Amigaz on June 09, 2004, 03:26:21 PM

Title: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: Amigaz on June 09, 2004, 03:26:21 PM

Just aquired M-tec's megabody IDE interface and a 1.3gig Toshiba HDD but have no experience in placing internal HDD's in good old A500's so I wonder if anyone here can give some hints/good solutions.


 :-)  :lol:

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: Effy on June 09, 2004, 04:00:26 PM

Easy question. If you have kickstart 2.0 or higher(3.1( then use HDtoolbox to prepare the harddisc to install an OS and use the OS floppies to install the harddisc, no problem ...

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: Piru on June 09, 2004, 04:07:20 PM

@Effy

Read the question again.

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: doctorq on June 09, 2004, 04:10:27 PM

@Effy
Hmm, I don't think he means how to prep the disk, but where to actually place the hdd inside the A500 cabinet.

@AMIGAZ
If you remove the metal shield covering the motherboard, I think you should be able to place the hdd on top of the chips, but place the harddrive on a piece of hard plastic so the hdd doesn't touch any of the motherboard components.

If you have a slimline floppy drive in the A500 you could also place the hdd under the floppy, but you most likely have one of the big sized floppy drives. It could be changed though.

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: Piru on June 09, 2004, 04:11:38 PM

@AMIGAZ

I would say any position you can attach the drive to. IIRC A500 is quite spacey so the drive should fit easily.

Perhaps drill some holes to metal shielding and attach the drive there?

When positioning the drive, remember to check the cable length. Would be a bit silly to mount the drive only to find out the cable is slightly too short then... :)

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: Amigaz on June 09, 2004, 06:15:44 PM

Thanks for the advices!
My only prob now is that my IDE cable is only about 15cm long  :laughing:
Guess I have to put a longer one together by my own if they aren't sold in any store.
The HDD I have is the slimline model so it should fit inside somewhere.

Title: Re: Best place to put an 2.5inch HDD in an A500
Post by: leirbag28 on June 09, 2004, 07:48:03 PM

 Dude you are lucky to have an internal HD for your A500. I myself am looking for one just for the purpose of being able to record Digitized animation from My Amiga LIVE! into an HD.  Since the LIVE takes up the Amiga's external expansion where harddrives are usually plugged, Im left with floppy only. So I need an internal HD and internal accelerator and RAM as well.