Thanks! That's a lot of great information, and the link is a treasure trove of solid stuff. I bookmarked it.

I've got 8MB right now. I do plan to expand it to 10MB after I get the HD situation sorted out.

I've not replaced the caps on the analog board. Looking at the drive that I'm planning to use, I don't see any sort of information about the power consumption on it, outside of the current rating on the rails, which doesn't seem to be the info I'm looking for. It's an older drive, made in 2003, but that's still about a decade more modern than the Classic II. Is it a matter of looking up specs on the interweb, or are there ways of testing the consumption?

I'd rather not deal with the analog board, but I will if I have to. Would you recommend that I look for an alternate drive? I was considering contacting Herb to see if he had any SCSI drives, but then I saw the IDE-SCSI adapter, and thought that was my better bet...