can anyone help an idiot here

[hal]

ok i know nothing about the a2091 scsi board (yes i´m asking about that again)

i´m not sure if it could take a certain drive can any board perhraps take any scsi disk if correctly set?

i bought this fine card on ebay when my a2000 was ok
but it broke down before i received it (the computer broke not the card)
and i had this 1gb seagate disk and would like if the board
could use it (does it maybe depend on the board hmmm)
i´m goin to try and get myself a new amiga since i´ve got some cash now then perhraps i can have sumthin to say here then again maybe not only ask i don´t think i know anything most of you already know

ok i´m gonna stop boring you and shut up now

[Twistin'Ghost]

My memory is very cloudy, but I think I had one of those cards and it was shite. Maybe I am confusing it with a different one. I'll have to check into this one. Who manufactured it? Maybe that will help my drug-damaged brain remember...

[jmmijo]

Well the A2091 was manufactured by CBM ;) of course GVP seemed to plagurize some of the cards or perhaps CBM actually contracted with a third party to manufacture their expansion cards for them, hmm, I wonder :confused

[hal]

well it´s well marked cbm everywhere on the chips and the board
well most of them
i was just gonna give you a scan of it but that didn´t come out good

well what i can read from the card

it says on the corner

(C) COPYRIGHT COMMODORE
A209 HARD CARD
BOYER/AUGI/NINESpcb/BEATS

and a sticker next to it says
REV.4.0 MODIFIED

and the rom boot chips say

COPYRIGHT @1990 CBM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
390721-01 V6.1 F4B8

AND

COPYRIGHT @1990 CBM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
390722-01 V6.1 088B


(if you want to know more just ask)

perhraps i should just wait for the a2000
test it on that and if that won´t work buy more stuff from ebay

twistin
tell me now if that card is shite
what else could you recommend

i once saw a nice ide card sold somewhere called the buddha or sumthin on the software hut (i think)
i couldn´t afford it if i remember correctly their stuff costs an arm and a leg and if the thing one is buying is a common thing it´s better just to wait for gettin lucky on ebay :)

[Twistin'Ghost]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the one I had. I don't even remember what was wrong with it, but I had been using HD's on the Amiga for years already from the video facility days, as well as helping friends with their setups, so it wasn't a case of being a newbie. I bought a used A2000 and that was what was the controller for the HD. I do remember that it was miserably inept and I ended up yanking it and replacing it with a superior GVP controller. Not only could I not give away the A2091, but I wouldn't (and still have a clear conscious!) Even the software for it was crap.

Sorry for not having any details...

[adolescent]

The A2091 card isn't that bad. It's just really slow. The last roms were v7.0 so you're not so far off (Amiga Hardware guide says v6.6 and up are prefered, but...). Also, you can upgrade the WD SCSI chip to the later v8 or AMD chip if needed.