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From: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis, chem dept, UoC NZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: info on pre'spect 2090a turbo upgrade ????
Keywords: 2090a hard-disk
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.151523.8786@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 25 Jul 90 04:19:19 GMT
Reply-To: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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I've just received a catalogue from Pre'Spect technologies ( a
canadian company, that amongst other things markets the ALF line
of hard-disk controllers ).
 
Anyway, I see that they're listing a 'turbo' upgrade package for
a CBM 2090a controller, which purportdly boosts the throughput
of the controller by 50%.
 
Unfortunately that's ALL they say about it .. no mention of whether
it's just a ROM upgrade, how it gets this increase, whether ( if it's
a ROM driver upgrade ) it also gets around the necessity of a OFS
partition to auto-boot too ( my pet peeve against the 2090a ).

If anyone has any more info on this package ( or even better, if
they've actually installed or used it !! ), I'd really appreciate
hearing from them ... ( it's $100cdn so I'd like some firm info
before sending off for it - it looks like it's either the pre'spect
kit  or hock off the 2090a and mail order a 2091 in from the 
US .. the 2091 is _still_ not available in NZ )
 
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