bubba119 wrote:
how hard is it to upgrade to a quieter, larger hard drive?
It's as easy as buying one, opening the case up (several screws on the bottom), turn it back the other way, lift the top - oh, don't forget the LEDs cable - move the keyboard out of the way, disconnect the hard drive (in the top leftish of the motherboard), plug the new one in. Make sure you get a 2.5" type (ie. a laptop HD rather than a standard one) or, well, see next question. Don't forget to put the Amiga back together again afterwards. Make sure you have one screw remaining because there always is after taking things apart (or maybe that's just me :-))
can you attatch an ide cdrom drive to the hard drive cable?
Yes, but you need a 4-way buffered interface. This will allow you to connect a IDE CD-ROM drive, as well as 3.5" hard drives. But, you don't want to connect all that stuff up with it still in the desktop case, because none of it will fit (or it'll be trailing out of the case and over the desk in a messy fashion). Either get an external SCSI CD-ROM drive and interface, or get a tower case for the Amiga and put everything in that.
Chris
