CompuServe Messages

I'll throw in my .02 here. I think the main point most of these folks are trying to say (or are saying in not so many words) is that you shouldn't jump into a forum and put down the very machine the forum is for. If you're having problems with an Amiga, this is the place to ask for help. It's NOT the place to put down a perfectly good machine just because you're having trouble. If I went to a Mac or PC forum, and started puting down those respective machines because I couldn't get one to work properly would be stupid, and the same goes here. I have an Amiga 3000 that has onboard SCSI, and is EASY to hook additional drives to, so I can't tell you how to fix the problem that you're having other than to perhaps suggest forgetting the builtin IDE interface in your machine, and getting an A4091 (or other SCSI adapter), and getting a SCSI drive for your Amiga. If you do go SCSI one of the things it'll do for you is speedup your machine. The Amiga is a fully multitasking machine, although with the IDE interface it has to stop multitasking for each disk access, and that slows down the machine, SCSI can fully multitask, so the machine can run at full speed all the time. I don't think you'll find many people even here that will argue with you that the Amiga implementation of IDE is horrible, SCSI is really the way to go! (Imagine what a Mac would be like with an IDE drive!)