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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap A2000 Hard drive..where?
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Date: 15 Mar 88 04:18:33 GMT
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In article <35998R38@PSUVM> R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
>Where can I get an inexpensive hard drive setup for an Amiga 2000?

Pick up an issue of Computer Shopper, InfoWorld or PCWeek.   Seagate,
Micropolis and actually most drives in there are heavily discounted.

>Do I have to go and get a controller too?  I would not like to get
>Commodore's brand, because I heard that it's DMA interrupts go buggy
>with overscan and other nonstandard timing changes (is that true?).

Not true any more.  It was with now obsolete version of the driver.
I have used a seagate-251 (40M) with the A2090 for over 4 months now
without a glitch.  And with the FFS it really FLIES!

>When I say inexpensive, I am talking from the point of view that for a
>IBM, you can get a drive for $300 (20-30mb) and controller for $100-200,
>but when I see ads for Amiga drives, I see combined prices of $700 or
>higher.

Disks for the Amiga are half-height IBM-PC compatible.  The Seagate 251 can 
be had for about $380. The controller is more expensive, though it supports 
MUCH more than an IBM-PC compatible Western Digital controller.  The A2090
supports up to 2 ST506 drives and up to 7 SCSI drives.

-- Marco