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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: kick 1.3
Keywords: Kickstart 1.3
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Date: 24 Jun 88 18:42:10 GMT
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In article <3572@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>Does 1.3 KICKSTART give you the ability or just the possibility to
>do the auto-boot? Doesn't you need another HD controller card than
>the present 2090 ?

The 2090 won't autoboot, the 2090 won't autoboot, ever. Kickstart 1.3
makes it possibile to Autoboot from i/o devices that have the Autoboot
circuitry on them (some ROMs mostly), the Commodore 2090 does not have
this circuitry, it won't autoboot. This is similar to 1.2 adding autoconfig
(whereas 1.1 didn't have it). Commodore has announced a 2090A controller
that will autoboot, the 2090 can't. You can use your 2090 as a second
hard disk controller, but it won't autoboot. You will need a 2090A for
that or someone elses controller that has the autobooting circuitry on
it. The driver for the recoverable RAM disk will autoboot after it has
been loaded into memory the first time. The 2090 will never autoboot.

So, KICKSTART 1.3 just gives you the possibility to autoboot.

--Chuck McManis
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