Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Autobooting a 2090. Message-ID: <9695@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 15 Feb 90 17:24:39 GMT References: <4509@orion.cf.uci.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article <4509@orion.cf.uci.edu> eapu030@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg) writes: >In article bartz@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Edward Bartz) writes: >> I understand that CBM has come out with a halfcard to autoboot >>a 2090. I have three questions. What's the model number (I knew it >>but can't remember)? Is it available yet? What does it cost? This thing is called the 2090B. They made some a while back, no idea on cost or availabilty. >I havent heard of a CBM product to auto-boot the 2090 while there is a >third party device to do it. A German company makes one, which they claim also have an improved driver for the 2090 in it. I saw this at last week's DevCon; at the very least, it does autoboot directly from FFS like a 2091. >An interesting side-note is that I have seen the 2090 auto-boot under Unix >with no modification to the controller. The A2620 and A2630 ROMs have the basic UNIX 2090 driver code in them, making this possible. >-Jason- -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough