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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: The Amiga2000 HD situation
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Date: 18 Dec 87 17:33:55 GMT
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In article <390@hvrunix.UUCP> ahinds@hvrunix.UUCP (Alexander Hinds) writes:
>IBM compatibility Since Amiga HD's are so expensive, is it possible to put an IBM hard
>disk in my 2000?  Thanks for your help.
>
>						Alexander Hinds

Of course.  That was the idea behind C-A A2090 controller: to support BOTH
IBM ST506 drives and Mac SCSI disks.

The only requirement is that the disk must be half-height.  Commodore listed
about 10 disk drives that have been tested for compatibility.  From that list
I recommend The Miniscribe 3650 (40M), Seagate ST225 (20M) and Seagate ST251
(40M), since these are very heavily discounted all over the place.  Look in
the various mail order ads in Computer Shopper, InfoWorld or PCWeek.  I myself,
bought the Seagate ST251.

Just to give you an idea of how IBM compatible the A2090 is, I successfully
installed an IBM PC RT (IBM's UNIX workstation) 40M IBM disk on the Amiga
with no problem.

-- Marco Papa
   Felsina Software