Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bj From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What to do? (1000 + HD) Message-ID: <16034@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 22 Nov 90 14:58:21 GMT References: <2910@uc.msc.umn.edu> <4055@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 33 In article <4055@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> martijn@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Reinalda M.) writes: > >In comp.sys.amiga you write: > >>Well, for the A1000, devices for that machine are sparse. However, since >>Most A500 HD things work for it, you could use most of them,provided ypou >>turned it around. The choices I would say would be the Commodore A590+, >>and the GVP Series II FaaaastROM controller for the A500. The Commodore >>controller is faster than the GVP controller, and you can problably get > ^^^^^^ >Is that true ? Is the A590 controller really faster then the GVP >controller ?. I'm about to buy one of them and I'll probably replace the 20MB >with a Quantum 40MB. But I've heard that the A590 interface was so slow, >that it would slow down the Quantum drive !! > I can't speak to the A590 vs GVP question but I can say that the A590's SCSI interface (which is what you'd be using if you swapped in a Quantum) is anything but slow. The speed limitation in this situation would definitely be the drive and not the interface. I have an A590/Quantum setup and it's fast enough, indeed :) bj > ** E-mail : martijn@DNLUNX.UUCP ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Jackson Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga Inc. GEmie: B.J. | | bj@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com or ...{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of | | the obvious." | -----------------------------------------------------------------------