Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard Drive Accolades Summary: And HF is being delivered now Message-ID: <9313@gryphon.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 07:26:46 GMT References: <5710@louie.udel.EDU> <3152@amiga.UUCP> <5407@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca. Lines: 28 In article <5407@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article <3152@amiga.UUCP> kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns) writes: >>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 >> Commodore 591 (not yet available) > > 590, not 591. It was at COMDEX, no announced price or availability >dates. Redmond just recently formally announced that the HardFrame was finally being delivered. Kodiak has done one bangup job with the device driver. I figure it is the first full DMA, full autoboot to FFS hard disk controller for the A2000 available to the public. I may be biased; but, I love mine! Go get 'em! -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.