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hard drive change for A500+
« on: November 17, 2004, 10:56:25 AM »
hi there,

Pretty new to the Amiga world (I was more a C64 man). I now have a 500+ with the CDROM and a A590 HDD unit. Can I change the 20Mb hard drive by any other IDE hard disk?
Can anyone point me to a doc on how to do this (preferably for an A500 beginner, but not a nitwit either).  :)

thank a lot!
Joris
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Re: hard drive change for A500+
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2004, 11:35:48 AM »
thanks!

I will try that and let you know.
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Re: hard drive change for A500+
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2004, 02:07:26 PM »
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doctorq wrote:
Yeah, good advice given there. I actually have a 2 GB IBM SCSI drive I was planning to install in my GVP HD8+, but haven't got time for it yet :-(

When buying a 50 pin drive you reduce the number of jumpers that need to be set. I have a 80 pin IBM drive as well, and the adaptor board to get it from 80->50 pin has 8 jumper settings I think, and with scsi drives there is enough jumper settings already.



OKAY, I will try to get one on eBay; 2Gb 50 pins. Will it be hard to set it up as a bootable disk?
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