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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Proverbial Floppy --> HD Upgrade
Message-ID: <06859.AA06859@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 23 Mar 91 14:24:35 GMT
References: <1574@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <1574@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>, daves@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (Dave
Small) writes:

> but from all the trouble I hear on the net with people
> trying to get 3rd party SCSI controllers to cooperate with
> new OS releases,

Mostly pirated OS versions that have not yet been released?

GVP's boards work fine under 2.0, even on the A3000.

> AMAX,

GVP also provide drivers for A-Max II.

> etc.,

What's "etc."?

> it seems to me that it might be better to just go with the
> official "guaranteed-to-be-supported" Commodore A2091
> product.

What about the official "guaranteed-to-be-supported" A2090? :-|

> what do the third party SCSI controllers have going for
> them?

Disconnect; removable-media support even under 1.3 FFS;
wider range of peripherals supported (V3.10 and later
revisions even support this !@#$%^&* Adaptec ACB-4000 SCSI
controller); DMA to on-board RAM not tying up the Zorro bus.

Ralph