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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:05:37 GMT
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- From: "Martin N. Steed" <u0g78@TEACH.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: RocHard HD for the A500
- In-Reply-To: <"gabriel.ke.917:22.00.93.07.51.08"@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>; from
- "GADGET" at Jan 22, 93 2:47 am
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- <GADGET> writes:
- >
- >
- > I almost bought a RocHard HD and controller for my amiga 500. ALMOST.
- > But, when it came in the dealer spent over a day fiddling with it to try
- > and configure it... the rom would not configure properly no matter what
- > positions he put the jumpers in. Well, since I had waited so long for
- > this silly thing anyway, I didn't take any chances... I sent the thing back
- > immediately and ordered my GVP.. I couldn't be happier.
-
- Well, you must have had a duff one then, mine works fine.
-
- Installation is a breeze, just plug it in, set the correct jumper for which
- ROM revision you have, and away you go.
-
- >
- > Oh, yeah, also, RocTech's HD controller is IDE (which may be no big deal
- > to you, but then again maybe it is) It costs about $300 more for the
- > SCSI controller.
-
- You what?? I got my RocHard (with a 130Mb Maxtor SCSI) and 2Mb of ram for
- #350 sterling (this was on import from the US though, so I had to pay some
- import duty etc.)
-
- Martin
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- Martin N. Steed
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