user_442@dayton.saic.com (01/14/91)
I have an old Amiga 1010 (External 3.5" drive) that I used on my Amiga 1000 for five years. However, I got an Amiga 3000 and this drive only works about half the time on the 3000. Does anyone know of any incompatibilities with the 3000? I also have another question. How much does the static column memory speed up the Amiga 3000?
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan13.221622.1439@dayton.saic.com> user_442@dayton.saic.com writes: >I have an old Amiga 1010 (External 3.5" drive) that I used on my Amiga 1000 for >five years. However, I got an Amiga 3000 and this drive only works about half >the time on the 3000. Does anyone know of any incompatibilities with the 3000? There was a problem at one point, due to reduced overhead in the trackdisk, a few old A1000/A1010 drives were missing disk insertions/removals. We think we've fixed it, though I'm not certain the fix was in KS 36.141/143 (the original A3000 release). It's certainly in the current A3000 KS available from dealers: KS 36.207 ("2.02"). If you're running 2.02 (or later if you're a developer), and the problem still exists, it would be useful if you could give more symptoms and the drive manufacturer (which would mean taking it apart, sorry, but not hard). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)