Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2000-and-1 expansion box
Message-ID: <4910@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 21:17:10 GMT
References: <1925@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <7246@well.UUCP> <10313@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10313@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>Leo ... why is the 'right thing' to do to have a hard disk in your
>system is to buy the 2090A?  (The 2090A doesn't do DMA, right?  If
>it does I'll shut up and go away).  While we've been waiting patiently
>for the 2090A to come along, Micron (I think) has come out with a
>very similar board that does DMA, AND has room on it to become
>a 'hard card'.

	The 2090 AND 2090A are both DMA controllers.  Both support ST506 and
SCSI (I believe micron is SCSI only).  The 2090A will AutoBoot if you
have 1.3 KS roms.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup