Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!aucis!easton From: easton@aucis.UUCP (Jeff Easton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A590 experience anyone ? Summary: Does the A590 really use XT bus drives? Message-ID: <509@aucis.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 23:29:40 GMT References: <118@philica.ica.philips.nl> <1126@jtsv16.UUCP> <1116@taurus.BITNET> Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI Lines: 32 In article <1116@taurus.BITNET>, finkel@TAURUS.BITNET writes: > In article <1126@jtsv16.UUCP> brian@jtsv16.jts.com (Brian A. Jarvis) writes: > >In article <118@philica.ica.philips.nl> tom@.ica.philips.nl (Tom van Peer) writ > >> [....] > Using the internal EPSON drive, I got only 170K/sec with 32K buffers. > > This EPSON drive is a SLOW XT-bus drive, and SCSI drives are much faster. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ > >>b) ease of use. How easy is it to add memory or other SCSI devices ? > > Either remove the internal EPSON drive and connect the SCSI drive with > a 50 pin SCSI cable, or add the SCSI drive outside the A590 box using a > 25 pin SCSI cable. Am I to belive that the A590 from Commodore has an XT style IDE hardrive in it and not a SCSI style drive? Doesnt this sound kinda strange that they would put in a SCSI controller chip and then not use it? > >>Tom. > > > > Jeff Easton UUCP: !mailrus!sharkey!aucis!easton Zenith Data Systems OEM Engineering Oh great! There goes my bandwidth average for this month ;-) ;-)