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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Hard disk and 4.3 motherboard?
Message-ID: <5533@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 22:26:00 GMT
References: <4595@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <3506@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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[ Gee, I seem to be in a hostile mood today.... ]

In article <3506@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> 	A CSA 68020 does not work with a C= A2090 h-disk on 4.0 b2000's
>
>The CSA board doesn't work reliably with the A2090 hard disk on any revision of
>the B2000.  The CSA board also doesn't work with several different add-on RAM
>boards.  Detect a pattern here.  You should.  There's a big problem with the
>CSA board and repeatable operation.  It appears to be a marginal design (I
>personally haven't seen one myself, but there are so many reported problems
>with it I can deduce this).
>
	Now this *is* interesting.  You claim that it is CSA's fault for
having a marginal design.  However, everyone I've spoken to at CSA (and even
people not associated with CSA) claim that it's Commodore's fault for not
having a 4-layer motherboard.

	I have spoken to a person close to CSA who is attempting to sell
Amigas to the truly professional community (video production, film
companies, etc.), and has claimed all sorts of reliability problems with the
2000.  As he tells the story (this is all hearsay, remember), he compiled
and posted to BIX a compendium of *all* the problems on the B2000
motherboard, and how to fix them.  Evidently, it was taken off BIX the next
day by the moderator at the request of Commodore.

	Anyone have any comments on this?  Are these people just blowing
smoke?

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