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- From: mojo@diku.dk (Morten J|hnk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrading an A500
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.100535.10298@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:05:35 GMT
- References: <By36o6.M6K@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Sender: mojo@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 45
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- tschille@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Thorsten Schiller) writes:
-
- >Greetings...
-
- >Reconsidering my finances (*groan*) I realize that my plans of purchasing an
- >A4000 are, well, toast. So, for the next year I think I'm stuck with my pitiful
- >500. SO.... at least I want to pump a bit of money into it in the hopes of at
- >least being able to do something productive with it (20 minute compiles
- >have got to go).
-
- >My first thought is to buy GVP's new A530 (68030 + 120 meg HD). But, the
- >120 Meg (largest that seems to be available) is a bit short on HD space (I
- >am also running a BBS)... so, now I'm torn between getting a Syquest 88 Meg
- >removable drive (this drive can be attached to the A530's scsi passthru, can't
- >it?) or the AdIde and get rid of my internal floppy. Which offers the better
- >solution? I've heard a few bad thing about the syquest drives and IDE speaks
- >for itself (some things are better mute :) ). Are there other alternatives
- >that I'm not considering? Is there an easy way to attach another scsi drive
- >to the A530 controller and just have the second drive in "yet another"
- >external case?
-
- The A530 is a good idea, mine runs like a dream ...
- There is an easy way to attach another SCSI drive to the A530. You have
- to buy a SCSI cable (a 25 pin thing), an extra SCSI drive and a power supply.
- In the mnaual for the A530 it is shown how to connect external SCSI units
- via the SCSI-port.
-
- >Lastly, I've inquired about this a couple of times in the past, but might as
- >well throw it in once again for good measure :) Is there any easy way of adding
- >an additional serial port to the 500 without resorting to the hardware hack
- >that's floating around? I would love to have a second port, however the
- >hardware hack would be a bad idea considering my harware skills *grin*
-
- Nope.
-
- >Please reply by email since my feed tends to be down a lot. I will summarize
- >to the net if anyone would like and/or I get any response :-)
-
- >Thorsten
-
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