01 February 2007, 17:29 | #1 |
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A500/+ Hard drives
Hiya all just wondering how much A590`s usually go for and do they work alright with the A500?
also got a choice on a GVP Impact 2 HDD (Doesnt come with a psu but looks easy enough to rig one up Just wondering how much i should offer really Cheers Mike |
01 February 2007, 18:55 | #2 |
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Definitely go for the GVP, the A590 is slow.
Price, I dont know but around 100 euro max? |
01 February 2007, 19:03 | #3 |
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isnt the hard drive upgradeable in the A590 to a faster drive?
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01 February 2007, 19:59 | #5 |
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The GVP one has been selling for under £40 on ebay recently.
There is no need for a separate PSU if you have an iron core A500 PSU (rather than the very light one). A small mod can be made to take the power from the A500. The A590 can be made to go at approximately the same rate as the GVP with a few mods and tweaks. They are both limited to well below 3Mbyte/sec |
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02 February 2007, 14:42 | #8 |
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So how much is an A590 worth just wondering what i should offer casing is in average condition
Cheers Mike |
02 February 2007, 16:44 | #9 |
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Ah well I said 20 he said 25 so got it for 25 comes with disks and power supply ..give me something to mess with lol
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02 February 2007, 17:57 | #10 |
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If it has the full 2Mbyte of ZIP RAM it's a good deal
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02 February 2007, 18:44 | #12 |
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ZIP ? I thought that was called DIP ? (ZIP being the A3000-Oktagon ram chips)
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02 February 2007, 19:55 | #13 |
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Ok, it may be DIP RAM, but it is 2Mbyte max, unlike the GVP which is 8.
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02 February 2007, 20:41 | #14 |
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So will there be any problem connecting one of these up to an Amiga 500+? as they were designed for the A500?
Also what hard drives do they take standard scuzzi drives or something weird? think 20mb wont take long to fill |
02 February 2007, 23:54 | #15 |
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It depends on which ROM version they have inside. Early ROMs dont work well with KS2.04 I think but I wouldnt swear on that.
Obviously a 1.3 hard drive wont boot with KS2.04 either. Depending on what ROM version you have you may be limited to hard drives smaller than 512Mbytes. |
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03 February 2007, 09:34 | #17 |
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My bad, it's the other way around isnt it... a 2.04 hard drive wont boot in 1.3
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03 February 2007, 14:38 | #18 |
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Cool thought i was going to have another compatibility problem
..Wonder when all this amiga crap i bought online is going to arrive waiting on 6 different things and a pile of misc hardware and games So what kind of hard drive do i need to upgrade the thing? or is it worth waiting for it to arrive before i buy a bigger disk? Cheers Mike **Edit just got an email from the seller saying its been lost ..Ah great ill have to track down another one. Last edited by Mike UK; 03 February 2007 at 23:54. |
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