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- From: pm@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Peter Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200's & IDE HARD DRIVES
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:26:45 GMT
- References: <cheungc.721656754@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <37100@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In article <37100@cbmvax.commodore.com> dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson) writes:
- >
- >HDToolBox knows how to talk to scsi.device. So does a lot of other software.
- >Hence, it was decided to make our scsi.device learn to talk IDE rather than
- >writing all new software. So you do have an IDE drive, you know that and I
- >know that, but HDToolBox is none the wiser.
- >
- Just 2 quick question:
-
- 1. Can the version of HDToolBox supplied with the A590 be used to setup an IDE
- Hard Drive fitted to an A1200?
-
- 2. Do all the A1200 3.0 roms support hard drives or are there 2 Rom versions
- as per the A600?
-
- >
- >--
- >Dale Larson, Software Engineer | Anyone who believes that what I say or do
- > | represents the policies or procedures of
- > | Commodore has more lawyers than they have
- >dlarson@commodore.com | common sense.
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- Peter Mitchell - Senior Design Engineer. |
- Dept.92941, TXE Engineering, | SCSI FOREVER!
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