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From: amatthews@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Finally: how to install an AdIDE (IMPORTANT
Message-ID: <780.28065819@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 01:00:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Computing Services
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In a previous post, Eric Schwertfeger wrote:
 
>For some reason, the AdIDE controller made my EXP-1000 ram board
>(1 meg, autoconfig, under the CPU) very unreliable.  In fact, if
>I did a fast-mem-first, the computer would crash on the very
>next disk access.  I strongly urge anyone that has any kind of
>ram expansion under the CPU to look elsewhere for a controller.
 
Help!  I just ordered an AdIDE/40, and I have a Microbiotics
two meg ram expansion.  However, this is an external expansion.
Does this mean that I probably won't have any problems since
the ram isn't directly under the CPU?
 
There is also a discussion going on about not being able
to low-level format an IDE drive.  I thought that sooner
or later, some additional bad sectors are going to turn
up.  Then what do I do.  Also, if the drive cannot be
low-level formatted once and a while, doesn't that mean that
it will become awfully fragmented or can I just delete
everything occasionally and copy all the files back onto
it to take care of file fragmentation.  (Forgive me if these
are stupid questions, I've never had a hard drive before, so
how the heck would I know?)
 
Speaking of things under the CPU, since the AdIDE is also
under the CPU, does this mean that it might not be
compatable with the AdSpeed 68000 accelerator?