Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!ziebmef!timg
From: timg@ziebmef.uucp (Tim Grantham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: hard drives on the Amiga 2000
Keywords: ibm hard drive boot
Message-ID: <1988Nov20.101928.18006@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 20 Nov 88 15:19:27 GMT
Reply-To: timg@ziebmef.UUCP (Tim Grantham)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <8811160324.AA19748@yorkville.csri.toronto.edu> drz@csri.toronto.edu (Jerry Zarycky) writes:
>The situation:
>	I have an Amiga 2000 and was reading with great interest the
>different results which people have had with their hard disk interfaces.
>I was looking to get Kickstart 1.3 in ROM so that I could have an
>autobooting hard disk, and I was trying to decide between a SCSI and
>an ST506 drive (price/capacity tradeoff being the choice)
>	But now, I may HAVE to do some work at home under MS-DOS (ugh!)
>and I was thinking of getting an AT Bridgecard (which will be here RSN).
>
>The question:
>	How to proceed?  Given that I want the best of both worlds
>(i.e.) an autobooting Amiga hard drive and the ability for the IBM
>side to use a hard disk.
>
>(I don't think that the IBM side can access an Amiga side hard drive;
>correct me if I am wrong)
>

The IBM side *can* access any Amiga device, including a hard drive. You can
create a file on the Amiga device that can act as a virtual drive for the
IBM side. I don't know how fast it is, though.
 
>Thanks for any responses,
>
>Jerry Zarycky

Tim.
>
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