Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mtunx!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Hard disk and 4.3 motherboard?
Message-ID: <2134@antique.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 15:59:12 GMT
References: <4595@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <3506@cbmvax.UUCP> <5533@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 31
Summary: Whose problem

In article <5533@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
|[ 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....  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.

What do you expect all those sources close to CSA to say?  Come on
now.  Whose responsibility is it to get peripherals to work right?
Maybe the 2000 could have been made easier to "get along with", maybe
not.  But if CSA products are flaky and other similar-function products
are not, then it is CSA's problem.  well that's my opinion anyway.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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