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From: STEVEG@MAINE.BITNET (Steve E. Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: 2000 owners relax
Message-ID: <8801160344.AA14352@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 88 03:29:00 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Maine
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  A dealers point of view on the A2000 disk cable 'missing pin' and life in
general.
  We have noticed this missing pin in the drive cable on alot of our machines,
it didn't come to mind that it was a cable 'keying' method.  We had a customer
return a 2000 because he thought that he broke the ribon connector.  After
seeing the cable I thought how could on *possibly* break a pin
in the middle of the cable?  One of the four end pins perhapps, but no
one could break one in the middle.  After that logic, we connected up the
drive.  No dice, DF0: light stayed on, odd things happened.  After looking
at the 2010 in DF1: we saw 4 jumper slots, which we correctly guessed were
device select (0, 1, ,2 ,3 ).  Interestingly tho the drive came pinned
as unit 0.  Kind of silly as the 2010 as df0: was not the same brand as
the one purchased for df1: so why would an add on drive be pinned as
df0:??
  Anyway, it makes a nice story and takes up bandwith.  The point I
tried to make when I started this was Commodore, Dave or whoever there
decides on these last minute changes, PLEASE PLEASE take an extra hour
to print up an addendum to the docs so we don't have to second guess
and so mass histeria does not creep in as a result??
  The 2010's we were shipped in the last batch were chinnon drives,
the a2000's were motherboard rev 4.3. The documentation was from another
time zone, in another era.

/Steve
Computer Corner
Robotto Electronics
Maine...