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From: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: was= A1000->A2000 , is= SDP
Message-ID: <15221@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 12:15:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.15221
Posted: Thu Oct  1 12:15:19 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 05:26:14 EDT
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Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <2434@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>>In article <15145@topaz.rutgers.edu> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>>	Will the A2090 allow Autoboot?
>
>Nope.  There's no driver ROM on the 2090 board; its driver is loaded
>in from Workbench.  Thus, no Autoboot.
>
>Just because a product is does not have a feature does not mean it is
>obsolete.  The 2090 board has been ready for quite awhile.

OK, 'obsolete' was a bad term, I hang my head low...


Of course having CBM's controller not auto-booting, makes for some confusing
and frustrating times.  Considering it will become the most wildly used one
(since most dealers will have this board in stock) it seems like a definite
deficiency.

An obvious fix is keeping the same Workbench disk in df0: all the time.  This
will have a startup that mounts the harddrive and assign everything over to
the harddrive.  This just seems more like a kludge.

Any chance of someone building an "auto-boot" tower for a A2090?
(What do I know, I haven't even got mine yet...  :-)



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