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From: wschmidt@phobix (Wolfram Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: On rewriting hddisk.device
Message-ID: <271@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: 1 Oct 90 22:24:27 GMT
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Someone here in Germany has done this. His driver is available as
chip set for the 2090a and on a socalled turbo autoboot board for the
poor 2090 owners (price for the latter DM 169 (these days 1$ := ~1.55DM)).
He wrote this driver because of some 'features' of the SCSI part of
hddisk.device. As a side effect the ST506 part was speed up ( <= 50% ,
384K/sec disk dependant ). The 2090 autoboot solution is not that proper but
they claim it works under 2.0.

The SCSI part uses 10 byte commands optionally (which hddisk.device does not).
Boots FFS (FFS in EPROM (newest version, I think)).
Automount.
Faster Format.
Install program.
No Rigid Disk Blocks. Grrr. This is the only drawback.
Maybe next update?

Wolfram
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No, English is not my native language and it's 23:19 now
Wolfram Schmidt
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