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From: 2200ai@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A590 Hard Drive Problem
Message-ID: <3139@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 Nov 89 02:02:08 GMT
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Is there anyone who can help me with a problem I'm having with the A590 hard drive?  When I try to run excellence! from MSS the system gurus when I do a save.
I called MSS and they said that the A590 is the only piece of hardware they
are not compatable with.  All the other amiga hard drives for the 500 they work
with.  What is the A590 doing differently from the other amiga hard drives on 
the market?

I am running from a 500 with the A501 memory expansion board; kickstart 1.3;
workbench 1.3.2 ver 34.28.  Excellence will not even run when booting off
floppy.  I have begun to encounter several other programs which will not work
properly either.  In all cases the system gurus with a CPU address error.
When I disable the autoboot ROM's in the A590 I can boot off floppy and 
everything is fine.

MSS claims that they have always written their software in accordance with
commodore's specs on software compatability.  Their comment was that 
"we suspect that commodore violated some of their own hardware design rules
when they designed the A590." 

At this point I'm prety frustrated and ready to call it quits!  The A590 was
supposed to make my life easier but instead I got a whole new bunch of 
headaches!

Is there anyone who can shead light on this subject?  If I can not find a
soloution soon I am going to have to take the A590 back.  I just want to know
what the A590 does different from everybody else.

Thanks
Mike