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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 2091 & multiple drives--the real scoop?
Summary: the roms are out, but not free??
Message-ID: <13579@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:12:08 GMT
Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
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Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I have recently added a second drive to my 2091 system.  I carefully
followed all the advice given here about making sure the drives
were marked as not supporting reselection, to work around a bug
that would be fixed "in a free ROM upgrade."

I managed to crash my machine by dowloading to disk as I was
compiling on the other drive.  It appears the reselection workaround
didn't work.

So I called my dealer, who informed me that the 2091 roms have been
around for quite a while, but that it isn't being treated as a 
warranty repair, and the cost would be around $60.

Hmmm.  Has ANYONE out there recieved this ROM upgrade?  Did it work
wonders for disk performance?  (Reselection is KEY to decent HD
performance with multiple drives)  How much did it cost?

Does anyone from CBM care to comment?  (My machine is March vintage
2500/30...)  How could they get away with charging for this thing
while it's under warranty?

thanks, and sorry for whining...
dylan
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dylan mcnamee				"...I put the Mu in Mother Goose, 
dylan@cs.washington.edu			 the Doc in Doctor Seuss..." Young MC