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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Questions on the A3000
Message-ID: <18570@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 02:12:15 GMT
References: <20869@know.pws.bull.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <20869@know.pws.bull.com> mohabir@arisia.Xerox.COM (Daniel A. Mohabir) writes:
>I have 2 questions on the Amiga 3000. The computer is a 16 MHz A3000.
>Question 1:	I have seen all the discussions concerning disabling 
>re-selection when using the A2091 on an A2000. Does this also apply to the
>A3000 or has the software on the A3000 been fixed to solve this problem? I
>will receive my A3000/16-50 in 2 days and I plan on installing a Conner 
>200 meg drive and a Syquest drive on the computer (the Syquest will be 
>external). Do I have do disable re-selection?

	It had the same basic problem, though it's easier to solve on the
A3000 (due to a softloaded OS), and it only had the reselection problem I 
believe, not the interrupt latency problem.  I'm not certain whether the last
released version (2.02) had the fix or not, but the current version 
certainly does.  If 2.02 doesn't support reselection, selection on the
internal drive should be off already.  Check out your A3000 Install disk:
there are scripts that build the default RDB, and one will include a
"reselection off" or some such command in it (it's a script of input for
the prod_prep program).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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