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Hi Betty > but the only Amiga that uses IDE drives is the 4000. Well, yes and no. Even ignoring the A1200 series, there have always been IDE drives in some Amigas. For instance My 1988 German A2000 had two ST157A hanging off a GVP3001 accellerator from day one, and still has one only now hanging off the IDE port of an ICD Trifecta (which also runs a gig of SCSI-2 fast drives). Also, for a long time us BBS sysops used Adaptec 4070A scsi-to-mfm adapter boards to hang up to 16 cheap XT drives off a 2090A card. The ICD2000 supported this too, until the last rom upgrade killed it. I still have a spare 4070 board. It's too bad Novell decided too early to port their software from a 68000 to Intel platforms, even early 2000's could have been excellent servers for less money. The GVP3001 was replaced by a 50mhz CSA Derringer with 16mb, by the way. The old Ami seems determined to live forever. Oklahoma City, OK