dodd@uncw.UUCP (Mike Dodd) (02/11/91)
Please help me make some decisions about the purchase of a proper harddrive for the Amiga/SideCar. If you have any info which would help to make my purchase as painless as possible please mail me what you know. I know NOTHING about harddrives and have read everything the Sidecar manual has about it. Apparently - I need to buy a HARDCARD and cannot use more than 20Mb. I want to partition off 1/2 for the Amiga and the rest for the IBM side. Is there a brand that I should go with in particular. What is the RLL and the other 'strange' letters after the Harddrives. What about 8 bit, 16 bit, etc. Thanks for any help you might be able to lend me. Mike
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (02/12/91)
In article <983@uncw.UUCP> dodd@uncw.UUCP (Mike Dodd) writes: >Please help me make some decisions about the purchase of a proper >harddrive for the Amiga/SideCar. > > Apparently - I need to buy a HARDCARD >and cannot use more than 20Mb. There's no limit of 20 MB. But indeed, I know of nobody who has used bigger partitions than the old 32 MB limit on his sidecar. Anyone have experiences? >I want to partition off 1/2 for the Amiga and the rest for the >IBM side. Do that. No problem. >What is the RLL and the other 'strange' letters after the Harddrives. RLL is a method to get ca. 50 % more capacity out of a given drive. But after what I heard over the years, you better *avoid* RLL! Nobody could tell me details until now, but fact is, about half of the people with RLLs have big troubles (read/write errors over and over), the over half is quite lucky and lives happily. >What about 8 bit, 16 bit, etc. The sidecar is an 8-bit architecture, you can't use 16-bit controllers. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk