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Re: A2000 and others, please voyage me back to home.
« on: August 09, 2006, 03:33:15 PM »
It must be either an A2090, or A2090(A) (the A stands for autoboot), since the A2091 lacked the MFM-controller, but featured a 2MB RAM-expansion.

The A2091 is pretty much the same as an A3000s internal SCSI, so after checking wether both ROM and SCSI-chip are "recent" it wouldn't give you any problem.

The A2090 are different and very ancient kind of beast, forget about running bigger HDs on it and don't even dream about CD-ROMs.

Or in other word, you'll be better (and cheaper) of by getting a 2nd-hand IDE-controller and useing "normal" IDE-drives.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: A2000 and others, please voyage me back to home.
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2006, 10:08:14 PM »
The A2090 doesn't have DMA (only th2 A2091 and GVP-cards provide DMA on a Zorro2-card).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else