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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Large IDE HD in A1200
- Message-ID: <36793@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 18:41:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.121045.26993@ulrik.uio.no>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Nov2.121045.26993@ulrik.uio.no> jawil@hpx12.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) writes:
- >
- > I have an 130MB Segate half-height 3.5" HD for my A500.
- > I'm going to sell this machine soon to upgrade into an A1200. Now I'm
- > wondering if I can keep the HD to use it with the 1200.
- >
- > Since my HD is 3.5" is it to big to fit inside the machine?
-
- Yep, too big.
-
- > If it is, can I extend the cables from the machine and place the HD outside
- > the machine? (Like I'm doing right now. I've got an internal ICD controller.. :)
-
- You might be able to kludge something up, but a long cable would cause problems
- with the system (not to mention FCC/EMI issues) and you'd need to adapt between
- the 2 MM pin spacing 2.5" IDE header and the .1 inch spacing on you 3.5" drive.
-
- > Is the A1200 blitter faster than the A500 blitter?
-
- It's not really faster, but in many display modes, more memory cycles are
- available for blitter access, resulting in better performance than perviously.
- In other modes, you have more planes to blit, which might appear to give
- slower performance.
-
- > When will a decent memory exp. be available? (4 megs fastram would have been
- > nice...)
-
- How about will be nice? I'd expect the A500 3'rd party hardware folks that were
- frustrated by the lack of opportunities in the A600 to jump on the A1200 real
- fast...
-
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