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From: mgh1@cbnewsl.att.com (matthew.g.hetman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2286 AT / Disk drive
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.142715.14785@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 4 Jun 90 14:27:15 GMT
References: <3916@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3916@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, zupke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian Zupke) writes:
> Howdy!  Has anyone successfully installed a hardcard inside an A2000 with
> AT bridge board?  I would like to do this, but would like to hear a success
> story first.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Brian


I have successfully installed two types of hardcards inside my 2000 with
an AT Bridgecard. The first hardcard was a Seagate XT type with 30 meg RLL
drive. It worked fine but was slow due to the XT type bus. It auto booted
DOS fine but did require 1.5 valuable slots. I just recently replaced it
with a Hardcard II 80 meg unit. The main reason for this was I needed the
additional space and the Hardcard II took only 1 slot. In addition, the
new unit used the 16 bit AT slot and I noticed a drastic improvement in
Disk I/O with it. The only disadvantage I have with it, and this could be
a major one for some folks, is that I have not been successful at creating
an auto boot sector with it. The Hardcard II requires the use of its own
fdisk utility, which for some reason on the AT Bridgeboard, causes it to create
the boot sector at sector 1 instead of 0. On boot up, the system looks for
the boot sector at 0 and fails. I tried using the std DOS Fdisk to format
the disk but that is incompatiable with the Hardcard II. I've talked to the
Hardcard II folks and they were of little help, all they said was that it
may not be compatiable with Commadore PC's  MS DOS or bios. (That was a lot
of help...) I've heard nothing from Commadore about this supposed 
incompatiability so I guess I 'll have to live with it. I do like the high
speed of this drive though.

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