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Ronnie, JDR Microsystems sells a Y connector for $2.95 which you can use. The newer IDE drives only use about 6.5 watts which hopefully won't overtax your power supply. If you don't want to buy a new 3000 tower, you can buy a larger replacement power supply for the 2000. I think it's called Big Foot and comes in 250 and 300 watt versions for under $200. Suppliers advertise in Amiga World. When youu install the IDE drive you might find that the BB won't find the drive. To fix this problem add TWO lines to your startup after Binddrivers: run pcreset; run pcreset. The two pcresets will solve the problem, at least they did for me (I have the multi-i/o card, as well.) You will have to enter the CMOS setup before using the IDE drive and set Hard Disk 1 to User 40, then enter the track, blocks, sector size, write precompt, and landing zone parameters. This is documented in the Janus manual. The drive should come with a small set of docs telling you what should be used. Once the CMOS setup stuff is set and saved, reboot the BB from a floppy and run FDISK to pre-format and partition the drive. Reboot again from a floppy and run FORMAT C: /s to format the drive and transfer the operating system files. You should then be able to boot directly from the hard drive. On the multi-i/o board be sure to jumper the IDE controller enable to ON. It normally comes disabled.