A590

[Lurch]

The A590 has a SCSI HDD, you should be able to boot with a Workbench disk and use hd tool to see and partition it.
There is also utility disks that came with the A590 to guide you through it.

I upgraded mine with a mechware SCSI card reader so I can use a PC to partition and setup a CF-Card and makes it easier to swap information between the A500 and PC.

You can also get SCSI to IDE converters to allow you to use an IDE HDD which is another option.

As for wearing out floppy drive heads purchase yourself a Gotek drive ;-)

Manual can be found here
http://project64.c64.org/hw/amiga.htm
https://archive.org/details/A590_Service_Manual_1989-08_Commodore

This is also a good guide to follow
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=52327

[Lurch]

@Lurch

would this work in a A590 or gvpHD+ to replace the 3.5 drive with a CF card

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-AztecMonster-CF-3-5inc-SCSI-Converter-Card-New-Condition-for-AKAI-E-mu-/261861243520?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf8257a80

So it's a SCSI to CF-Card, looks like it should work. The connector appears to be the right SCSI standard :-)

Can't get over the price of these things now :-/