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- From: lucretia@spots.ab.ca (JR Friesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: I need A2090 software, please
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 17:17:09 GMT
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- Seriously, if you want to use a 2090 controller look for the
- excellent information kit on Aminet (where ever amigaguide docs are
- found docs/hyper ?) Heck I could even email a copy of it (pretty small
- compressed :)
-
- But I have used a 2090 and 2090a in a 2000 rev 6+ systems running
- 1.3, 2.0. and 3.1 without incident (I'll regret saying that now :)
- But it works. Don't expect miracles, or run races :)
-
- Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : In a message of 13 Apr 96 Mike Farren wrote to All:
- :
- : >> My advise: don't even try it. The A2090 is known to cause all kinds of
- [snipped erroneous info]
- :
- : MF> Well, that's pretty funny, since thousands of Amiga users used A2090s
- : MF> day in and day out for many years, before the A2091 came out. I don't
- : MF> remember hearing about it causing "all kinds" of problems before...
- :
- : Well, it does. It may have been more stable in a Kickstart 1.2
- : environment in an A2000B with board rev 4.4 or so, but in more
- : up-to-date Amigas and in combination with today's software and
- : drivers it is bound to cause problems unless you are VERY, VERY
- : lucky.
-
- Perhaps it''s the 2090 card thats no good. I live in a very dry climate
- well usually, but my original 2090 had two of the socketed chips rust. Needless
- to say these boards were behaving strangely before I found this out.
-
- Or maybe the drive hooked up to it is no good. Well you know these things:)
-
- : Regards, Ruud
- : rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
-
- With many working amiga''s with 2090''s including my
- net machine :0
-
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- James Friesen |who? lucretia@spots.ab.ca
- Lucretia Enterprises |web? http://www.spots.ab.ca/~lucretia
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