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From: asklingl@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andreas Klingler )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Autobootable A2090
Message-ID: <3328@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 5 Dec 90 14:30:58 GMT
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hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen) writes:


>   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??

If someone knows the address of a company which took over the CombiTec
products please mail it to me.
I bought the card just before they went out of business and I really like
it. The only problem: it doesn't autoboot under 2.0 .

Thanks
	Andy

>                                                      -Henrik

>| Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data | If the Doors of Perception where cleansed, |
>| ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!  | Man would see Reality as it is - Infinite. |
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Andreas Klingler
asklingl@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
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