Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucsbcsl!hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu From: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard B. Owen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: I'm ordering a 2090A Message-ID: <910@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 15 Oct 88 15:42:39 GMT Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Distribution: na Organization: UC, Santa Barbara. Physics Computer Services Lines: 30 In article , limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes... > >I finally have enough $$$ for a hard drive. It looks like I'm going >to put in an order for a 2090A. I have a couple questions: > . . >I don't do overscan, speed is no concern of mine. Software support >would be nice (i.e. third party utilities). Knowing that C-A will >most likely support their own drive in the future is a big plus. Yeah, right. That's why I bought the A2090 in the first place. 3 weeks or so after I brought it home, I caught wind of the A2090A, which would autoboot eventually. Fine, can I upgrade my A2090? No, indeed, there's no room on the board for autoboot ROMs. Grrr. On the other hand, if I had waited (and waited) for the A209A and 1.3 (let me add a few "and waiteds" for that last item), I would have had a lovely suprise when I tried to get my ST251 to boot from power-up. Of course, the failure to boot ST506 drives is entirely due to Seagate's "long latency" period. As if vanilla PCs hadn't been autobooting off the same drive hardware for years. Given CBM's long history of "support" for their products, I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of reasons to buy their hardware. -- Howard Owen, Computer Systems Manager internet: hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu Physics Computer Services BITNET: HBO@SBITP.BITNET University of California, Santa Barbara HEPNET/SPAN: SBPHY::HBO "I am not a pay TV service!" 805-961-8366 (work)