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From: AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mouseslayer by trade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 2090A + ST277N
Message-ID: <4783@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 88 12:00:53 GMT
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Well, with egar shacking hands I unpacked my shiny new 2090A and seagate
ST277N yesterday.  And am happy to say that the installation procedure
went flawlessly.  I now have a REAL computer, it even does fast directorys.:-)
However all is not bright on the horizon, on the 2090A addendum it states
the following:
"You cannot autoboot with a Seagate SCSI hard drive and an A2090A Controller
Card because of the long initialization process in the Seagate power-up
sequence."

I wish that I had known this before I purchased my ST277N (which by the
way I got for $441.00 from Hard Drives International).

What I am hoping is that "power-up sequence" means you can't boot on power
up, but after the drive has finished it's power on sequence, you can reboot
and then boot.  I can't check yet, because I didn't get the 1.3 Roms I
ordered from CATS.

A side note, I don't know is this stuff is actually available to the general
public, I ordered it via the CATS developer program.
        Don
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