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From: brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Trumpcard/Syquest/Rev4.2 A2000 HELP!!!
Message-ID: <61050006@hpcljms.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:07:11 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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  There is no need to dump the SyQuest drive.  Both the Ricoh and SyQuest
are TRUE removable media hard drives.  They both are removable media
platters and in both the actual drive mechanism are inside the drive.

  Now I used to have a problem with my SyQuest drive.  It would occasionally
lock up during a disk write operation.  This problem occurs when the
SyQuest drive is used with a Commodore A2091 controller.  It is a problem
in the SyQuest ROMS.  I have recieved new ROMS from SyQuest that correct
this problem.  I have also noticed that the newer ROMS from SyQuest speed
up the disk access time quite dramatically.   So, for those SyQuest drive
owners out there I would call SyQuest and ask then for a ROM update.


  Here is a summary of the ROM versions that I have used:

        ROM     SPEED   works w/
      version           A2091
      ========================
        F2G     SLOW    LOCKUP          <-- SyQuest as shipped
        FFH     FAST    LOCKUP
        FAJ     FAST     YES            <-- Amiga owners w/ A2091 need these ROMS