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I upgraded from the original A1230+ to the new one with the scsi board several weeks ago. The hardware installation was very simple, although there were two jumpers on the scsi board that had to be removed that were not documented. The system wouldn't boot with the scsi board installed at first, but a call to GVP corrected the problem. Compared to my old Xetec scsi system I sold a year ago when I sold my A500, the Prep and support software is excellent. Right now I'm only running a Quantum 240lps, however, looking thru the documentation, there are methods for setting up removeable media and other like drives that have special needs. Specs include an external DB25 scsi port, Active termination and support of the SCSI-II command set. GVP claims speeds in excess of 3,246,495 bytes/second (with some special tweeking mentioned in the fine print), on my system, the new drive is about 2.5 times faster than the IDE drive that was installed in the A1200. Sysinfo reports 1,900,000+ bytes/second and Diskspeed 3.0 reports 1,300,000+ bytes/second. I'm not really a tech person, so I don't know how much of this is the drive itself and how much of it is the scsi system. As I mentioned, I only have the harddrive on the scsi chain at the moment, but I will be adding a CDRom drive and Tape backup unit eventualy. I've been dropping hints about the CDRom drive to my wife since our anniversary is in a couple of weeks <G>. I converted a mini PC tower case with a scsi cable and installed the harddrive in it, I will install the CDRom and Tape Backup in it as well. Overall all I'm very pleased, but to be honest I don't have any experience with regards to simuliar products on the market and how they compare to the GVP unit. =Rick=