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From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drives and Interface
Message-ID: <15397@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 13:56:11 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.15397
Posted: Wed Nov  4 13:56:11 1987
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In article <1497@van-bc.UUCP> Dave@daami.vnet.van-bc.UUCP (Dave Allen) writes:
>                             Warning!
>                             -=-=-=-
>The following message may be taken as an advertisement and therefore
>may offend Net users. The intention is to make inexpensive Hard Drive
>systems available to members of Amiga Users Groups.

This message might offend AMIGA owners that have hard drives already.
But if you don't have a hard drive ...

>The WEDGE, a hard drive interface board for the AMIGA 1000 and 500.
>Allows you to connect up to 4 160 Megabyte IBM style hard drives.
>Requires Drive Controller card - suggested Western Digital WX1

What exactly is The WEDGE ? If you are going to be commercial, at least
fully describe the product.

I would presume it is a slap on the side something or other that allows you
to use IBM hard drive controllers so that one can use an inexpensive IBM
hard drive. Is this what it is ?

Does it pass the buss properly ? (IE. can I use my 2 meg slap on the side
expansion ?)

I presume it comes with a proper software driver ? Source would be nice
(so it can be tweaked to go faster, etc.) ?

How does one of the hard drive systems described in the previous article
compare speed-wise for program loading/saving/etc. to the other hard drives
available ? (I think a program to check this info is on one of the fish
disks .. I remember seeing a whole bunch of stats for other AMIGA hard
drives posted a while back).

Does anybody out there have one that can give a review ?

Since the local dealer has 20 meg hard drives (I forget the make) for
around $1500(?) cdn, I would like to know more about The WEDGE.

	fred

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