Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: jesup%cbmvax.uucp@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2000-and-1 expansion box Message-ID: <4437@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:30:17 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 29 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 8241; Sat, 01 Oct 88 02:47:37 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 02:47:35 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ab16818; 30 Sep 88 20:14 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa16768; 30 Sep 88 20:11 EDT From: Randell Jesup Subject: Re: 2000-and-1 expansion box Message-ID: <4910@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 21:17:10 GMT Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU 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