Attention! SX-1 users i need some advice!!

[Gavilan]

Got your attention? Great...
 :-D
As subject says...i got my brand new "toy". An SX-1. I want to add a hd inside, just wanted to know which is the biggest size it will allow me. And also, memory, can i only add 8 megas or more?
And what about a "special" power supply? The one that came with my CD-32 isnt powerfull enough?

Want to read all your comments/advice!

Cheers!
Gracias!

Sebas
 :-)

[Hyperspeed]

Search on eBay for SiliconTech

You might be lucky and find an 800mb solid state hard disk that
will plug into your SX-1 and give you zero noise and super fast
access.

For memory get an 8mb single-sided 60ns 72-pin SIMM (non-parity,
non-ECC). Get a Fast Page Mode (FPM) module.

Get a Goliath Power Supply or a Wizard Power Box if you can or follow
tips on Aminet how tomake your own PC supply.

You might also want to benefit from the SX-1's ability to
simultaneously use the CD32's Full Motion Video VCD card.

Get yourself a mouse and keyboard too! The Wizard 560dpi mouse is a
good one, but any old mouse will do for now as long as it's Amiga
specific.

:-D

Enjoy!

[leirbag28]

@Gavilan

You dont need any extra Power Supplies even if you had the thing fully loaded with FMV and all. I used it like that.although it would not be a bad thing if you got and original CD32 BigFott PSU for it. or convert a 4.6 Amp A500 powersupply for it.

You can fit an 80 Gigabyte Laptop drive in there. Yes...........80 Gigabyte and install OS3.9, I got a 40Gigabyte a few months ago for $140.00 and now they should be aabout $95.00............now if you want to add a 3.5" HD instead, you can also and will be lots cheaper but more bulky.......you can probably get a 40Gig for like $75.00 or less..........then rig a PC Power Supply to power the HD seperately or power the Whole CD32 and HD.
I had it like that once.



8mb is the max RAM that it supports.only 4 mb if you add the FMV.

[Hyperspeed]

An 80 Gigabyte hard disk on a 14Mhz '020 machine.

Woe betide you should it get a checksum error and you boot to 30
minutes of CRRRrrRrrrrrr

;-) ;-)

What could you possibly fill an 80gb drive with on CD32 anyway, that's
enough to put 126 CDs on - probably twice as many CDs that were
released for CD32!

:-D :-D :-D

[leirbag28]

@Hyperspeed

Trust me, when you want to load your Amiga with Animations and music and tons of games want to emulate a 68k Mac, Linux and have tons of applications for them as well..........Plus, mak backups of those very same Partitions wich require a partition of equal size and have a Partition to burn CD's.................40Gigs is hardly enough, at least not for me.............but most people can do just fine and dandy with a 2gig or 4.3gig HD...........I know I have done quite well with one myself.

I have my current CD32 set up this way and I continually hook it up till it explodes!

All jokes aside,  I Have a 40gig and wish i had purchased an 80 gig laptop drive at 7200RPM (yes they exist)

Nothing like having a portable powerhouse Amiga in your hands.