Just got my A500 and was about to fire it up for testing

[Jope]

BoingBoss wrote:
If an Amiga 500 has an internal 2.5" hard disk, it will be in the place of the disk drive (there will not be an internal disk drive).  People that have hard drives inside their Amiga 500 have to use an external DF0: disk drive.
 

But why? The 2.5" mechanisms are small enough to fit anywhere inside the A500.. It's not very cramped.. You could even fit a 3.5" drive inside without much hassle. Of course the top RF shield has to go, but I've lost mine a long time ago anyway.

I have an ICD AdIDE + Novia mounting kit and the 2.5" drive sits in a bracket on top of one of the CIA chips.. The floppy drive is just fine where it is.

[Jope]

So once again, Doomy is either lying, or just plain stupid.

The poor devil is so semi-informed, but then again he's so arrogant that he thinks he knows it all and can't accept any corrections to his info.

A true besserwisser in the worst sense..

I wouldn't have a problem if he wasn't so arrogant when spreading his beliefs - it's so sad when his instructions are always partially true, but at the same time partially incorrect or unnecessary (yet they are the RIGHT WAY and you MUST DO IT LIKE I SAY). Then people get misinformed and start spreading the same beliefs on other forums and the problem just gets bigger.

But hey, I don't have to change the world, so I mostly just ignore the man nowadays.