bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) (02/20/88)
I have a two-slot (original) Zorro expansion box with NO pass-through (this was not necessarily expected to be a permanent arrangement). I have a 2-meg ram card in one slot which I do not want to toss into the trashcan, and the other slot is empty. I want to get a hard-drive, and I can't seem to find any that will work without making my memory unusable *and* that the company is willing to sell me. I have considered the following: 1. Side Effects. This was the original plan, but they are defunct. (or so I concluded after three months of runaround). I got my memory from them, and they made good stuff. Oh, well. 2. Expansion Technologies. They supposedly make a zorro card for PC controllers which I could put in my existing box. This would be nice, but I've called them five or six times and left messages. I've never been able to find anybody to talk to and they've never called me back. 3. C Limited. I am informed that their pass-through munges stuff. 4. Supra. I tried this at a friends. This works pretty well for a while-- it boots, startup-sequence finishes, the workbench is there, you can open directory icons, all the memory shows up on workbench, and all is fine. Then when you try to run the first actual application, Amy hangs. Oh, well. I am turning to the net for help. I have seen an ad for the Phoenix drive. any others? I want to do as little hardware hacking as possible, although my wife's an electrical engineer and I suppose I can recruit her, but I'd prefer not to. The disk's controller *must* either: > Be on a standard (original, 1000-style) Zorro card, *or* > Have complete, unaltered, pass-through (which apparently neither C-Ltd nor Supra does). My current card-cage does not have its own power supply, so the disk I get must have its own power supply, or I must discover how to supply power to it. Thanks, guys, for whatever you can tell me to help with this. I should ask for replies by e-mail, but I have some evidence that e-mail here is even less reliable than news, so if you guys don't mind, I ask you to e-mail replies. I promise to quickly acknowledge all replys; if you don't get a reply within a week, please post (ok? flames about how I *should* handle the situation are welcome, though they are also likely to only have a 50% hit rate). I will, of course, post summaries to the net of whatever replies I *do* manage to get to the net after a couple of weeks. I'm about to give up on my 1000 system if I can't get help with this. If this (net posting) doesn't work, I'll probably upgrade to either a 2000 or a Mac. (I kinda liked the Mac before, but the Amiga was cheaper; the 2000 isn't, so the Mac starts looking attractive again. Plus you can find peripherals for the bloody thing!) -- --Brian. (Brian T. Schellenberger) ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts DISCLAIMER: Whereas Brian Schellenberger (hereinafter "the party of the first
nelson@cg-atla.UUCP (Blake Nelson X7083) (02/28/88)
In article <343@sas.UUCP> bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes: > > >I have a two-slot (original) Zorro expansion box with NO pass-through >(this was not necessarily expected to be a permanent arrangement). I >have a 2-meg ram card in one slot which I do not want to toss into the >trashcan, and the other slot is empty. I have the exact same situation. I any of you net landers have solutions please pass info along. Blake Nelson