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

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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.
 

Wrong.

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Jope wrote:

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.

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

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BoingBoss wrote:
Hi Jope,

I think you need to watch your big mouth!  Only a stupid person will place a hard drive right over the chips.  A smart person will remove the disk drive and install the hard disk there.  Then they will configure an external disk drive to be DF0.  I am NOT lying and I am NOT stupid and I DO KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT !!!!  

Did you spend all day practicing that little (fake) rant, Doomy?  Should I post the URL to where you, Mr. Helpful, promise to go after amiga.org with DDOS attacks?

Aaaaaaanyway, the hard drive mounting kit came with brackets that kept it off of the chips, and ICD got rave reviews for the AdIDE products in AmigaWorld, long before you ever set eyes on the Amiga.