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- From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems with the A4000
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:05:57
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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- Message-ID: <AHANSFOR.92Sep14130557@wpi.wpi.edu>
- References: <1992Sep12.083819.17967@news.iastate.edu> <35075@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In-reply-to: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 14 Sep 92 14:32:07 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 14 Sep 92 14:32:07 GMT, mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) said:
-
- mks> The IDE interface on the A4000 has no new hardware to do anything
- mks> special other than standard IDE. In fact, it is functionally
- mks> almost exactly the same as the A600. In fact, the driver for it
- mks> is exactly the same source code with just a few equates different
- mks> for the addresses of the registers. What you call the "SCSI"
- mks> work-a-like was work that Randall had done even for the A600.
- mks> This is why the IDE driver is called scsi.device. HDToolBox
- mks> works with it unmodified. In fact, programs that do scsi-direct
- mks> do too. And this is true in the A600 and the A4000.
-
- Really? I thought that IDE drives just couldn't do some things that
- the SCSI drives do. Like low level formats. Not really up on IDE
- drives though. Sounds like the best has been made of the IDE.
-
- Question: Can a system support both IDE and SCSI drives at the same
- time. That is say I buy one and use the IDE and later decide to get a
- SCSI card. Could I still use the IDE and can I boot off the SCSI and
- use the IDE as a secondary dirve?
-
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