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Two questions, first (and most important, to me at least) :

Adding a second (IDE Internal) hard disc to an A5000, yes I'm getting
fed up fighting with my 40M. From reading magazines, adverts, etc. I
notice that IDE 2nd drives advertised for the A5000 are some #50 more
than similar drives sold for, say, (#define hushed_tone) IBMs
(#undefine hushed_tone). Now the question is, does this extra #50 get
you anything other than a splitting cable - ie. do the A5000 drives
come with some sort of what-ever to aid their fitting into the second
floppy bay (which I understand was not designed to take a second
hard disc).

I suppose my real question is, if I were to be able to buy a suitable
IDE drive (I've already got an idea of suitable makes) how easy is it
to fit into this bay (ie. is it simply a case of screwing the thing
in, or would I need to make some sort of fitting plate (or what-ever),
and also how easy is it to get a suitable cable ?

I'd appreciate any hints/information - particularly from anyone who
has already fitted such a thing to an A5000.


Now my second question, which not at all important, it's just a "it'd
be nice to know" type situation :

ADFSBuffers in RO3.1 - What puzzles me (not ever having had working
ADFSBuffers :-) ) is this. If you have setup some ADFSBuffers and the
machine crashes (hangs), do you say goodbye to any writes which are
currently buffered or, do writes not get buffered, or is there some
clever way of recovery (I doubt this one).

Ian

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