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From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Update for Overdrive Owners
Message-ID: <2309@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 18:41:19 GMT
Reply-To: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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I just got off the phone with Pacific Peripherals, talking about the 
autobooting daughterboard for the Overdrive.  In particular, I was curious
when the $&*%(@ they were going to have the FFS autoboot EPROMS ready.
Seems that the daughterboards they are shipping now *have* the FFS EPROMS;
the holdup is in the software, and the guy doing the software is off doing
God-knows what.

Anyway, what it all means is that the daughterboard they are presently
shipping ($25, by the way) will give you autoboot to old file system partition.
When the new software is ready, you will be able to autoboot directly to FFS
with no hardware change (so you don't have to open up the machine again.)
I ordered mine.

Apparently things are set up so that if there's a non-bootable disk in the
drive, then you can force hard disk boot by holding down one of the mouse
buttons.  This sounds kind of stupid, but I could probably live with it.

Just thought I'd let y'all know, I know there are (were?) a lot of Overdrive
owners out there.

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