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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: 19 Mar 88 02:45:16 GMT
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In article <AWEQCdy00Uo58QE0Rj@andrew.cmu.edu| dg2l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Phillip Ghormley) writes:
|In article <35998R38@PSUVM|, R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
|| 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?).
|  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|Yes, is that true?  Has anyone out there had any serious problems with this
|sort of thing?  (and is it fixable?)

No it not true, and it has been that way for at least 6-7 months.  One of the
earlier hddisk device drivers had the problem with overscan.  An updated
device driver was also posted on usenet at the time it was fixed.  This is
probably available where all amiga binaries are stored (purdue?).  Can
anybody confirm this?

As I have said repeatedly before, I never had ANY problem with the A2090 and
overscan, and I use overscan often with Digi-Weather images (704x480).

-- Marco