born again amigan!

[gunni]

Hi all,
thought I'd better stop lurking and say hello!

Got my first Amiga as a much needed upgrade from my Amstrad CPC back in the day.
My trusty A600HD was the most amazing thing of my school days and unfortunately we parted company when I went to college as I "needed" a PC.
Things then went from bad to worse as my initially DOS based system moved on to OS/2 and then Windows 3.1
More recently I became a Linux user after one too many blue screens of death from Windows Vista, discovered Amiga emulation and got the Amiga bug again.
After moving house I came across some old Amiga floppies and decided to get a proper Amiga again. I acquired a non-working A500, swapped in a refurbished motherboard from Amigakit and got stuck into a serious session of Turrican 2!
Since then I've kitted out my pride and joy with a GVP hard drive and upgraded kickstart and workbench to v2... and replaced the floppy drive a couple of times
I know you can attach a SCSI CD-ROM to the GVP hard drive, is this a worthwhile upgrade for a 500? Also I've seen SD floppy emulators on ebay, would anyone recommend one as an alternative to relying on a dwindling supply of A500 floppy drives?

[gunni]

thanks for the advice guys. with regard to the floppy drives the first one was the original and the second I picked up on ebay. will have a bash at opening one up and see how that goes however

[gunni]

Thanks for the links Cammy card reader could well be next on my list!
I haven't actually checked how much RAM I've got in the GVP unit, how much do I need for the upgrade from kick 2.05 to 3.1?
Tried a floppy cleaner already with the floppy drives to no avail, the last one as I recall kept having problems with a particular disk sector regardless of the disk in the drive...
Thanks again