In a message of 27 Jan 95 Paul Edwards wrote to me:

 PE>>> Last weekend I bought a 540 meg IDE drive (Conner CFS540A) from Acuma

 EB>>   Just curious, I have an Amiga 1200 (the sexy model) and want to know
 EB>> if this is a slim 2.5 inch drive, or a FAT porker ibm drive ?

 PE> It's a 3.5" drive.  Anyhow, you need SCSI for Amiga, and unfortunately
 PE> the SCSI drives are more expensive, something like $420 for 540 meg
 PE> instead of $320.  :-(  BFN.  Paul.

  No, I got two IDE 2.5 inch drives in mine at the moment, thing is there
is only 120 meg total, I want MORE! Anyhow, Amiga takes either SCSI or IDE,
I think IDE will be more popular because it's free, all you need is a flat
ribbon cable about 1 inch long, or one with two ends and a middle thing all
in parallel, thats if you want two IDE drives. IDE is in all Amiga 1200's
as standard, you cannot get an amiga 1200 with no IDE, so everyone is
getting those 40 meg drives cause they don't cost anything these days ...
what $40 ? I like that with amiga, everyones machine is the same, and has
everything in it already, and no CMOS, you just plug the disk drives or
hard disk drives in and It knows that they are there by itself. Does away
with complex installation programs that ask you what display card you
have.. and all that stuff.

Edison Black

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