1 Feb
2003
1 Feb
'03
11:50 a.m.
I thaught most if not all were SCSI hd's
http://www.amiga-society.de/ahwbook/scsi.html
The amiga A590 used a rare XT IDE drive but allowed use of scsi using a
different connector.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Any Amiga users on this list?
>I find those older scsi HD's never die (unlike
the newer ones). I wanted
to
>try programming on the original hardware since I
have the monitor for the
>500. I dont need any of the newer os's just to play around with and I
think
OS 4 and the
hardware platform will be stillborn anyway.
My point is that the HD expansions that I've seen for the A500, don't use
SCSI disks. That's why I question their reliability.
Zane
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