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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Autobootable A2090
Message-ID: <184e2861.ARN04338@adspdk.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 13:55:29 GMT
References: <4e4d0fc2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1990Nov30.153345.14330@ericsson.se>
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In article <1990Nov30.153345.14330@ericsson.se>, Tommy Petersson writes:

> In article <4e4d0fc2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> tedg@apollo.HP.COM (Ted Grzesik) writes:
> -I have an A2000 with the old A2090 (correct part #?) hard disk controller
> -
> -I remember reading about an add-on card that allows you to auto-boot with the
> -existing HD controller.  Anyone know anything about this?

> Commodore Germany publicly announced it 20 months ago as the A2090B. It
> never did (or will) be produced, as it seems. I believe that there is
> a similar card anyway, made by a third-party German developer. I will
> try to dig it up, if noone else knows it, off-hand.

   I've seen a tiny (real tiny!) ZorroII card by CombiTec that did this. It
allows autoboot off FFS partitions, SCSI drives and other goodies, and
seems to speed the ST506 drive quite a bit. Worked very neat, but the
company went broke before it was mass markeded :-(  A recommended retail
price at $99 sounded almost too good to be true!

   The product made the A2090 better than the A2090A, and they also had
upgrade chip sets for the A2090A controller.

   Perhaps some other company took over the product??


                                                      -Henrik

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