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- From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Seagate Medalist 2Gb IDE HD OK for A4000?
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 96 09:42:04 GMT
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- Mui Liang Lie (M.L.Lie@net.HCC.nl) wrote:
- > Hello,
- >
- > I'm looking around to buy meself a larger harddisk and
- > recently I saw a 2 Gb IDE harddisk by Seagate for only
- > HFL 749,- (438 USD).
- >
- > But could anyone tell me if this new Seagate Medalist 2.140
- > Gb IDE HardDisk will work 100% in an A4000/040, no problems
- > with bootup, MaxTransfer, Masks, HD limit, etc...
-
- Don't know about the 2140, but the Medalist 1080 works like a dream in
- my A1200. You have to lower the maxtransfer, otherwise no problems at
- all.
-
- > And how fast would it be in practise, around 2 Mb/s ?
-
- Slightly more then 2Mb/s for mine. I've got the maxtransfer set
- fairly low and can't be bothered to fiddle with it. My supplier
- reckons you can get 2.5Mb/s on a fast Amiga.
-
- Phil
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- Philip Stokes phil@stokes.demon.co.uk
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