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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: 2090 controller questions.
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 00:18:08 GMT
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- Dan Ritter (dritter@direct.ca) said:
- >Right now all I have to work with on my Amiga 2000 is a 2090 controller and
- >an old MFM hard drive. The hard drive is acting up now and I was thinking
- >of getting a SCSI to replace it. Is the SCSI plug on the back of the 2090
- >standard? Could I just get a standard cable in any store that sell IBM
- >parts?
-
- >And the old hard drive I was using was so incredibly slow. If I bought a
- >reasonably fast SCSI drive will it perform well on this old controller?
-
- It's unlikely that any modern drive will run well on a 2090, even 2091s have
- lots of problems. I'd recommend you sell the combination and get an Oktagon
- controller or similar. Mine works with everything I've thrown at it, Quantum
- HDs, CD-ROMs, ZIPs.
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