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I have a problem may be someone can help me with. I have an Amiga 1000 that has 2.5 Megs of RAM with Spirit's X-RAM board, DKB's Kwikstart II board with 2.04 and 1.3 ROMs installed, and two floppies. The problem that I am having is that I tried ICD's AdIDE 40 [Akit with 52 MEG AT hard drive without much success. I tried this system because it was recommended by the December 1991 AmigaWorld issue that it is compatible with A1000. Yet this system is hard to get going without spending a whole lot of money. I tried ICD's tech recommendation such as extra grounding on the motherboard, shortening the drive cable, and installing the DKB's FastPal chips on the daughter board, but none of these suggestions seem to do the trickIt seems that the mother board expansion bus can only two seperate systems at once and the ICD's hard drive kit it just crashes no matter what you do. Could someone recommend anything else I can do? I am at my wits end and I try save much money as possible, but I think I will buy another Amiga such as A2000 or A3000 later this year;hopefully, Commodore will lower the prices of the Amiga later this year so the Amiga will sell a whole lot faster than they are now. I hope someone can make a reasonable recommendation. Hackers if you are at there please make some recommendations.