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- From: mc3220@mclink.it (mc3220)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard Disk Upgrade
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 20:47:55 GMT
- Organization: MC-link The World On Line
- Message-ID: <2028.6356T1317T2453@mclink.it>
- References: <4c0eg8$ovg@netnews.ntu.edu.tw> <4c6j90$mcs@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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- >In article <4c0eg8$ovg@netnews.ntu.edu.tw>, b4611013@cc.ntu.edu.tw (Tommy
- >Lee) says:
- >> I got a A3000. Hearing that AT will release a PPC board for it,
- >>I'm reconsidering upgrade it.But I won't upgrade the OS and GFX
- >>(Retina Z2).I'll wait till the board come out with OS 4.0 and wait
- >>for the "new chipset"(heard it once).The only thing I want to do now
- >>is to get a larger(1GB) harddisk for my 3000.Has any one has experiences
- >>with installing a SCSI harddisk? The computer shop nearby is selling
- >>Fujitsu SCSI 1GB for about $400,but I afraid that the HD won't be
- >>recognized. Since all the shops here is for the PC,so I can't get an answer.
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- >This past June I replaced the 52MB drive that came with my A3000. I
- >ordered a 730MB drive out of a PC magazine mail order place and installed
- >the drive myself. The instructions in the "Introducing the Commodore
- >Amiga 3000" book were straightforward; the only difficulty I encountered
- >was when I hooked up the old drive to transfer files between the two and
- >forgot about the terminators (needle-nose pliers were quite handy).
-
- >The point is, I know next to nothing about installing computer hardware,
- >and yet I had no difficulty at all. I guess this means that SCSI is
- >SCSI, and there's nothing the shop is going to do to SCSI drives
- >intended for a PC that will make it unusable by an Amiga.
-
- Don't worry, SCSI is SCSI and USUALLY there is nothing to worry about. I've
- used my Amiga Quantum HD on a Mac and a Mac Seagate on the Amiga.
- Also Apple CD300's performs flawlessly on my machine. You don't even have to
- low-level format driver, just partitioning and initializing (quick format) is
- needed. I say USUALLY just to be safe, but any SCSI drive should work fine.
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