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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
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Subject: Re: MONTHLY POSTING: Frequently Asked Questions a
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Date: 6 Mar 91 00:56:37 GMT
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In article <8055@chorus.fr> ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes:
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|MONTHLY POSTING: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers V1.1 (March 1991)
|[...]
|                                 HARDWARE
|1.1. Why does my battery backup-ed clock not work properly?
|1.2. What are the 8520's?
|1.3. What hardware is broken and can I repair it myself?
|1.4. During a boot or RESET the screen changes. What does this mean?
|1.5. Can I replace the 68000 with an 68010 to get a higher performance?
|1.6. What is the difference between the A2000 and the B2000?
|1.7. What is the difference between al these kinds of memory?
|1.8. On boot time on an AMIGA 2000 the first key pressed isn't read.
|1.9. What is done upon boot time?
|1.10.What display modes are there?
|[...]

This is a good start, but we definitely need some info on dealing with
the vagaries of Life With A Hard Drive.  Fer instance:
	- how to deal with key errors, bad blocks, etc, etc
	- discussion of DMA vs (whatever happens when its not DMA)
	- SCSI vs non-SCSI
	- others?

As a non-hardware type person, these are some of the things that I think
non-hardware types are likely to ask...

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