CompuServe Thread

David: Although I have the Golden Gate 486, I'm sure the answers you need are the same for 386 GG. "Is it easy to install? (software)" Yep, it's very easy to install. It has a hard drive installation program so it's just a matter of clicking on the install icon. The software for the PC side is relatively easy to set up also and is well explained in the manual. However, the Golden Gate bridgeboards don't come with MSDOS so you will need to purchase a copy at your local PC store. I'm running 6.0 with DoubleSpace compressed partitions and it's been working great. "Can I use the Amiga hard drive as a DOS drive?" Yes again. I have 1 40MB partition (C: drive) set up on my 4000's internal IDE drive and a 100MB partition (D: drive) set up on my external SCSI drive. The Golden Gate uses these as direct MSDOS partitions bypassing the Amiga file system for much better performance than with CBM's Janus software. "Can I use DF0 or DF1 as a DOS floppy?" And again the answer is Yes. My 4000's internal HD drive operates as a PC 1.44MB A: drive when I'm using the GG. Whenever I switch back to the Amiga for certain things, the drive automatically switches with it making it an Amiga drive again. However, even though you don't have to go through all the cabling like you do with CBM's 386BB, I did notice that the Golden Gate drive setup is slower. Possibly due to using emulation instead of a direct hardware setup. So you sacrifice some floppy speed for the ease of installation. Not a big deal since the only thing I use the PC floppy for is to install software to the hard drive anyway. // John – (Flying via AutoPilot) \X/