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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!!! WITH SIDECAR HARD-DRIVE
Message-ID: <879@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 09:26:35 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.170941.27277@lut.fi> <1262@pdxgate.UUCP> <8846@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> <1991Jan26.213148.20057@convex.com> <983@uncw.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <983@uncw.UUCP> dodd@uncw.UUCP (Mike Dodd) writes:
>Please help me make some decisions about the purchase of a proper
>harddrive for the Amiga/SideCar.
>
>  Apparently - I need to buy a HARDCARD
>and cannot use more than 20Mb.

There's no limit of 20 MB. But indeed, I know of nobody who has
used bigger partitions than the old 32 MB limit on his sidecar.
Anyone have experiences?

>I want to partition off 1/2 for the Amiga and the rest for the 
>IBM side.  

Do that. No problem.

>What is the RLL and the other 'strange' letters after the Harddrives.

RLL is a method to get ca. 50 % more capacity out of a given drive.
But after what I heard over the years, you better *avoid* RLL!
Nobody could tell me details until now, but fact is, about half
of the people with RLLs have big troubles (read/write errors over
and over), the over half is quite lucky and lives happily.

>What about 8 bit, 16 bit, etc.

The sidecar is an 8-bit architecture, you can't use 16-bit controllers.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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