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From: mende@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mende)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Questions about the sidecar
Message-ID: <5396@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 12:50:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.5396
Posted: Tue Jul 22 12:50:46 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jul-86 04:55:17 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: Sidecar, use of expansion bus


[---Yow!  I'm Hungry ... Is there anything good to eat here?---]

  I have a few questions about the sidecar that is soon (so they say) 
to be released.   First of all, Does the sidecar have to be directly on 
the Amiga's expansion bus, or can you have it running off an expansion board 
like a memory board?  Does the sidecar have a 86 pin bus comming out of it?
If it does, does it pass the Amiga's full 1amp or does it use part of it?
  Second of all, I have head about using an IBM hard drive and partitioning
part of it as an amiga hard drive.  Does this hard drive use DMA or is 
it bound by normal I/O speeds?  
  Thanks in advance for asking all these questions, I am considering buying
a 1meg. board and do *not* want to buy it if it would be incompatable with the
sidecar.


				Bob Mende


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