Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!lal102 From: LAL102@PSUVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Autoboot HD on A500 Message-ID: <63978LAL102@PSUVM> Date: 6 Dec 88 05:19:07 GMT Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing Lines: 16 I purphased my A500 about 6 months ago, it's working fine, except that accessing floppy drive is RRREALLY SLOW. Now, I m thinking about getting a hard drive. But I have so many questions in my mind. Here is a few of them: Can I autoboot from a hard drive? If I can, what do I need to have in order to do it? (Note: I have A500) How much faster does a HD run compare to a Floppy? Which HDs and SCSIs are more reliable? Practically how many floppies can I put in a 20M HD? Is using HD a lot different from using FD, What do I have to take care of when I'm using HD, instead of a FD? I know these questions may seem to be stupid to most of you. But I'd been very happy if some of you guys can spend a couple of minutes and answer them for me Thank You.