dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) (03/06/91)
In article <8055@chorus.fr> ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes: | |MONTHLY POSTING: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers V1.1 (March 1991) |[...] | HARDWARE |1.1. Why does my battery backup-ed clock not work properly? |1.2. What are the 8520's? |1.3. What hardware is broken and can I repair it myself? |1.4. During a boot or RESET the screen changes. What does this mean? |1.5. Can I replace the 68000 with an 68010 to get a higher performance? |1.6. What is the difference between the A2000 and the B2000? |1.7. What is the difference between al these kinds of memory? |1.8. On boot time on an AMIGA 2000 the first key pressed isn't read. |1.9. What is done upon boot time? |1.10.What display modes are there? |[...] This is a good start, but we definitely need some info on dealing with the vagaries of Life With A Hard Drive. Fer instance: - how to deal with key errors, bad blocks, etc, etc - discussion of DMA vs (whatever happens when its not DMA) - SCSI vs non-SCSI - others? As a non-hardware type person, these are some of the things that I think non-hardware types are likely to ask... -- Dave Schaumann | dave@cs.arizona.edu | Short .sig's rule!