Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!hedley
From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Announces Hard Disk Controller Upgrade?
Message-ID: <3729@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 12:23:21 GMT
References: <8805040727.AA18832@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8805040727.AA18832@decwrl.dec.com> rmeyers@tle.dec.com (Randy Meyers 381-2743 ZKO2-3/N30) writes:
>My dealer told me that last week Commodore officially told him
>that it would be possible to upgrade an A2090 disk controller
>to a A2090a disk controller by swapping one or two chips.
>
>In other words, a simple upgrade to the current Commodore hard
>disk controller will allow it to act as a boot device under
>Kickstart 1.3.
>
>My dealer did not have any price information on this upgrade.
>He wasn't sure if the chip(s) that needed replacement were
>socketed, but he suspected that they were.
>
>Has anyone else heard anything about this?  Would the Commodore
>folks like to confirm or deny this statement?
>
>----------------------------------------
>Randy Meyers, not representing Digital Equipment Corporation
>	USENET:	{decwrl|decvax|decuac}!tle.dec.com!rmeyers
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Seems that a 2090a card has roms on it for the autoboot code. The 2090
card does not. Don't know how your gonna plug those roms into
non-existent sockets. Sorry, but this sounds unlikely.

Hedley