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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ESDI controller?
Message-ID: <660@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 24 Jul 89 14:18:51 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

In <12239@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

> Commodore makes the only ST506 controller for the Amiga, the A2090(A).  Aside
>from this, every Amiga hard disk adapter is SCSI.  Why?  SCSI is the cheapest
>adapter to build, that's the main reason.

While it may be true in the _strictest_ sense of the word that CBM makes the
only ST506 controller, there are most definitely other ST506 solutions for the
Amiga, or in other words, NOT every hard disk adapter for the Amiga is SCSI.
The Wedge comes immediately to mind, and I know there are a couple of other
products that allow the use of IBM-style ST506 controllers.

>Then, the disclaimer:  All expressed opinions are, indeed, factual.  \  / o

You might consider changing this for the time being.

-larry

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