Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!calgary!cpsc!paquette From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard Drive Accolades Message-ID: <271@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 20:53:47 GMT References: <5710@louie.udel.EDU> <3152@amiga.UUCP> Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Lines: 26 In article <3152@amiga.UUCP>, kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns) writes: > In article <5710@louie.udel.EDU> > )George Neville-Neil writes about the GVP controller: > )>It is great!!!! It even autoboots FFS. I don't need one of those stupid > )>little 5 track partitions. I am a very satisfied customer. > Commodore has provided a *standard* for storing the FastFileSystem on the > disk itself in loadable form. That standard is embodied in the include > filesand . It is currently > used by the following folks that I know of... > Great Valley Peripherals (w/ new AutoBoot roms) > MicroBotics HardFrame Sort of a side note here.. can you get the GVP controller or the Hardframe with an ST277N and have the WHOLE drive FFS WITHOUT having the 1.2 roms in my 2000 replaced by 1.3 roms? Is this type of thing possible? I don't need it to autoboot.. I'll wait for 1.4 and the other improvements it is suppose to bring. Trev ============================================================================= Trevor Paquette - GraphicsLand, U of Calgary[Home of The Great Train Rubbery] UUCP: ...!{ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!paquette ICBM:51 03 N/114 05 W Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter * I got the hippy hippy shake