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From: GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard drive & chip contention
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Date: 7 Mar 89 19:07:19 GMT
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The local Amiga dealer here is very reluctant about selling me a SCSI
drive for my 2000 because he claims that anything more than 2 bitplanes
causes mucho contention between the drive and the Amiga's graphics chips
and so he doesn't recommend it. *Sigh*  Everyone I've talked to has
recommended SCSI.  So, how accurate is the dealer's assessment?
Someone mentioned the contention problem on the net a couple of days
ago, but how bad is it and when exactly does it occur?  This is assuming
we're using a SCSI drive with a 2090A controller.

And I wonder why so few Amiga users have hard disks...

Eric Giguere
Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo

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