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- From: lee@insync.net (Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Need information on Dell HD drives
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 03:16:37 GMT
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- >Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- >: J. R. (Bob) Proffitt (bob@pixi.com) wrote:
-
- >: : Does anyone know if the Dell HD drive for Amiga would function as an
- >: : internal floppy drive in a new A4000T? The lack of an HD drive is one
- >: : reason I hesitate to buy an A4000T yet.
-
- >: It would work as an external drive, if the 4000T had an external floppy
- >: header. There is a hack that can be done, to put an external connector
- >: on the second internal floppy connector, but I don't know how it's done.
-
- >: My advice is to find a 4000 owner (or someone else with an internal HD
- >: floppy) and offer to trade them a Dell for their internal floppy.
-
- >Um, why not just remove the Dell drive from its case and mount it
- >internally? Likely you'd have to come up with a custom bezel, but that
- >shouldn't be too difficult.
-
- >The drive itself is either a standard drive with a speed-buffering board
- >(ala the Power Computing drives) or a modified version of a standard
- >drive that can be used directly.
-
- Nope. It's a laptop drive. It's form factor is so small, you could stack
- two in a 3 1/2 in drive bay. The eject button is on the side, however... You
- might be able to rig something if you can fabricate a lever to go with your
- bezel. Of course, if you can do all that, the custom cabeling should be a
- breeze. :-)
-
- Lee
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