24 Nov
2001
24 Nov
'01
5:27 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>Interestingly, the A590 has an XT-IDE controller,
the A2090 an ST506. Both
>have SCSI, of course. I had the questionable pleasure of seeing an Amiga
>2000 with *two* ST506 hard drives last week when were given one by a former
>member. One was connected to the 2090, one to an 8-bit ISA controller for
>the A2088 bridgeboard. Hideous sight, not to mention the sound. =/
I definately remember the A2000's with ST506
drives
installed. During my first exposure to Amiga's it was a big deal if
you had a controller that would actually autoboot vice needing a
floppy to boot the machine at least part way. The Tecmar hard disk
assembly on my A1000 is like that...the drivers for the controller
are loaded off of the Workbench floppy. Now that I actually have two
of the drives for my Tecmar controller though I should open one up
and see what's inside of it. In the '87-88 timeframe it was the
cost of the controller/drive combos for the Amiga that initially made
me shy away from them.
The A2090 is a bit of a bother in that regard. I believe the oldest revisions
wouldn't autoboot at all, whereas newer revisions would, at least after a ROM
update. However, it didn't use Commodore's standard for autobooting drives
(Is this what RDB does?) and AFAIK, it can't be manipulated with HDToolbox.
The MFM drives need to have particular partition names, too, which also alter
the order of SCSI partitions. I suppose it does what it's supposed to do if
you just use it as a cheap way to get a SCSI card for connecting the
occasional SyQuest or scanner, but it certainly wouldn't be my prime choice
for a SCSI card. =/
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