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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: On rewriting hddisk.device
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Date: 2 Oct 90 13:14:13 GMT
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In <3386@mindlink.UUCP>, a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
>In <271@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, wschmidt@phobix
>(Wolfram Schmidt) writes:
>|
>| Someone here in Germany has done this. His driver is available as
>| chip set for the 2090a
>
>    A chip set to replace hddisk.device? How is this done? (and why?)
>  Anyway, could you pass on addresses etc. or do you know if there is a
>  North American distributor? Can 2090A owners get just the driver? Price?

I can answer the first question... Yes, the driver can be on the ROMs on the
2090A. Why make one? Because the ROMs on the 2090A already contain the driver
(hddisk.device). You can, if you have a 2090A, get rid of any instances of
hddisk.device in DEVS: or sys:expansion, because the ROM code from the 2090A is
loaded into memory and executed there.

-larry

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