Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!labtam!eyrie!walking!david From: david@walking.pub.uu.oz.au (David Le Blanc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What to do? (1000 + HD) Message-ID: <1844f76e.ARN16c5@walking.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 26 Nov 90 19:47:14 GMT References: <2910@uc.msc.umn.edu> <4055@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> Reply-To: david@walking.pub.uu.oz.au Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Lines: 49 In article <4055@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 !! Well, I have an A590, with a 325Meg Miniscribe SCSI attached. Diskperf gives a rating in excess of 700K per second (in the largest buffer size..) (whereas the 20Meg drive gives about 159K per sec!) and although it DOES get bogged down a little :-) when using ham interlace overscan screens, I'd generally say it was FAST!. I have heard that the difference between the GVP and the A590 was that the GVP came with a better drive, BUT the A590 comes with a better *controller* so If you intend to replace the drive with a large drive, get the A590 (unless you want the mega-meg 8 megabyte expansion capabiltiy in the latest GVP '590+' look-alikes). > > Can you help me out ??? Thanx in advance. > Hope this helps. > > *********************************************************************** > ** Keyboard error or no keyboard present. Press any key to continue. ** > ** IBM. ** > *********************************************************************** > ** E-mail : martijn@DNLUNX.UUCP ** > *********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Le Blanc UUCP (home) : eyrie!walking!david@labtam@munnari.oz david@walking ACSNET (work) : david@dogmelb.dog@munnari.oz "Life? Dont talk to ME about life.. " : Marvin the paranoid android. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------