| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 998.1 | A2090 + ST251 | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Wed Dec 23 1987 06:10 | 3 |
| I am using the A2090 controller and ST251 disk. I have 40 MB
and no problems.
John Sauter
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| 998.2 | I love having a hard disk !! | CAMTWO::ARENDT | | Wed Dec 23 1987 16:47 | 10 |
| I have a 2000 and am using the A2090 controller and a miniscribe
3-1/2 inch 20 meg drive (st506 type not scsi) and I would recommend
that you go for the st type drive but get a larger ie 30 or 40 meg
even if this means using your internal 5-1/4 slot. I wish I had
because the 30 meg drive in 5-1/4 was only $40.00 more than my 3-1/2.
Otherwise I love my hard disk, it is quite fast compared to my floppy.
I have plenty of disk space and a very fast boot procedure.
Considering the cost of the PC coproccesor board it would be
cheaper to buy a real IBM pc or AT clone so I do not think I will
ever buy one.
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| 998.3 | Luck there were no typo's in that one! | WJG::GUINEAU | W. John Guineau III | Wed Dec 23 1987 17:01 | 9 |
|
> -< I love having a hard disk !! >-
So do I but I don't advertise it :-0 (read: oops!)
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| 998.4 | | MEMORY::BERKSON | What's that in the road - a head? | Thu Dec 24 1987 08:43 | 8 |
| It seems as if it might be nice to have a hard disk that goes in
the 5.25" slot. Then you could put the second floppy in the 3.5"
slot and sell the external floppy probably for at least as much as
the new internal one would cost. Any drawbacks to this? I guess
you have to anticipate never wanting to use the 5.25" slot with
the bridge card.
mitch
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| 998.5 | bridge can boot from external floppy | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Thu Dec 24 1987 11:00 | 5 |
| re: .4--The bridge card isn't a problem. I have a hard disk in
the 5.25" slot. My bridge card came with an external 5.25" floppy
drive. The store had to make some modifications to let the bridge
card boot off the external drive, but the result works.
John Sauter
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| 998.6 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Dec 24 1987 13:25 | 7 |
| re:.5
interesting, first time i've heard of that setup. How is the external
drive attached? ribbon cable from the board to the drive?
Is it the Commodore 1020 5.25" drive?
-dave
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| 998.7 | regular connector; standard drive | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Thu Dec 24 1987 13:36 | 10 |
| The external drive is attached using a connector at the back of
the A2000. It looks exactly like the connector from the A2090,
though I haven't yet tried moving the drive to the 68000 side.
The drive appears to be exactly the Amiga 5.25" external drive.
The store said that they had just received instructions on installing
a bridge board that could boot from an external drive, so perhaps
I'm among the first with this configuration.
John Sauter
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