HARD DRIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AMAZING COMPUTING (AMAZING AMIGA) 1. AMAZING AMIGA, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 34-39, "The Supra Controller", John Boulle. Discusses installation tips and techniques. Good summary of performance specs. 2. AMAZING AMIGA, vol. 4, no. 11. p. 33, "Spirit Technology's HDA- 506", Chuck Raudonis Discusses an adaptor board that allows the use of less-expensive IBM-compatible ST506 disk controllers to your Amiga. 3. AMAZING AMIGA, vol. 4, no. 6, p. 28, "BugBytes", John Steiner Discussion of problems with A2090 board in 16-color, high- resolution, overscan mode. Recommends running SetPatch, then FastMemFirst before you run BindDrivers. Also mentions lowering MaxTransfer value in mount list may help. Recommends setting BuffMemType to 4 or 5 to avoid using chip ram. Mentions PATCH2090.ARC utility that helps control DMA bus contention. 4. AMAZING AMIGA, vol.4, no. 4, pp. 21-27, "Hard Drives - An Introduction", Jon A. Boulle Excellent discussion of hard drive technology covering ST506, SCSI, ESDI as well as interleave and data-encoding schemes (MFM, RLL). Excellent summary of over 50 hard drives and specs. 5. AMAZING AMIGA, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 28-29, "Adding a Hard Drive", John Twardy How to build a home-brew ST506 hard drive set up for your Amiga 500 for little money. 6. AMAZING AMIGA, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 41-42, "Commodore A590 Hard Drives Plus", Paul Costa Review of Commodore's external hard drive for the A500. Mentions that new version of included 1.3 Fast File System is faster than original 1.3 version. AMIGAWORLD 1. AMIGAWORLD, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1989, pp. 24-30, "Amiga 2000 Hard- Disk Controllers", Robert Ryan 7 SCSI controllers evaluated. Does not cover A2091. Covers non- hardcard version of GVP's Impact card reviewed in this tape. 2. AMIGAWORLD, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1989, pp. 31-34, "Amiga 500 Hard Drive Sytems", Louis R. Wallace Discusses 7 controllers for Amiga 500. Also covers GVP's Impact card for A500. 3. AMIGAWORLD, vol. 5, no. 3, March 1989, pp. 22-30 "Hard Times Ahead", Louis R. Wallace Good discussion of most subjects covered in this tape. Very detailed discussion of how to set up an A2090A Old File System boot partition and Fast File System work partition. 4. AMIGAWORLD, vol. 4, no. 2, February 1989, pp.20-24, "Bridge over Troubled Waters", Louis R. Wallace Discusses Bridgeboard. Short section covers hard drive sharing both Amiga-PC and PC-Amiga. 5. AMIGAWORLD, vol. 3, no. 4, July/August 1989, pp. 25-30, "Stockpiling your Software: Amiga Hard Disk Drives", Mark L. Van Name and William B. Catchings Discusses Amiga 500/1000 drives for AmigaDOS 1.2. Now pretty much out of date. AMIGA RESOURCE 1. AMIGA RESOURCE, vol. 1, no.3, Fall 1989, pp. 32-36, "Bridging the Gap", Neill Randall Covers Bridgeboard operations in general. Excellent discussion of hard drive sharing and use of the JLINK command. AMIGA SENTRY 1. AMIGA SENTRY, vol. 2, issue 8, March 1989, pp. 54-57, "Backup", Steve Dock Good comparison of 3 AmigaDOS backup utilities: Quarterback, Superback, and Express Copy. 2. AMIGA SENTRY, vol. 2, issue 8, March 1989, pp 11-16, "GVP's Syquest Connection", Steve Dock Discusses GVP's hardware for installation of Syquest Removable Media hard drive. 3. AMIGA SENTRY, vol. 2, issue 8, March 1989, pp 34-36, "Janus Libraries V1.1", George Rapp Discusses Gamma version of Janus software that comes with A2286 (IBM AT) Bridgeboard. New software tested on A2088 (IBM XT) Bridgeboard. Several great new features noted. The MakeAB program makes an autoboot partition on an Amiga hard drive as well as creating the file "full size" for greater data integrity. 4. AMIGA SENTRY, vol. 2, issue 1, August 1988, pp 14-16, "Microbotics SCSI Module", George Rapp A review of a plug-in SCSI controller module for the Starboard II ram expansion device for A1000. 5. AMIGA SENTRY, vol. 2, issue 1, August 1988, pp 35-37, "The Impact Hard Card", George Rapp A review of the GVP Impact A2000-HC/20 hard card. This card is the predecessor of the GVP card shown in this video tape. It is compared with the Commodore A2090 board. THE AMIGA TRANSACTOR 1. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 2, issue 6, September 1989, pp. 6-9, "Amiga Dispatches", Donald A. Curtis Long discussion of bad block mapping and mountlist setup parameters for "non-standard" drives. 2. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 2, issue 4, July 1989, pp. 54-56, "Hard Disk Husbandry", Jay Gross. Good discussion of hard disk organization, numbers of partitions, and directory setup. 3. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 2, issue 2, May 1989, pp. 64-67, "Three Hard Disk Backup Utilities", Steve Ahlstrom Reviews Quarterback, saf-T-net, and Express Copy backup utilities. 4. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 1, issue 6, March 1989, pp. 12-15, "Amiga Dispatches", Donald A. Curtis Discusses how to change an old file system JANUS drive to a Fast File System. Very technical. Not for the faint of heart. 5. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 1, issue 5, February 1989, pp. 4-8, "Amiga Dispatches", Donald A. Curtis General info on mixing old file systems and Fast File Systems of pre-V1.3 AmigaDOS systems. Discusses XEBEC 9720HD and Fast File System. How to set the Mountlist MaxTransfer parameter correctly. 6. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 1, issue 3, December 1988, pp. 71-75, "Survival Guide to the Bridgeboard", Dan Schein Very thorough discussion of Bridgeboard hard drive sharing - both ways. Discusses file transfer between the two machines including binary file transfer with the undocumented "/b" switch. Discusses how to setup your startup sequence. 7. AMIGA TRANSACTOR, vol. 1, issue 1, April 1988, pp. 5-9, "Amiga Dispatches", Donald A. Curtis Short technical discussion of JANUS drives and Bridgeboard-Amiga file transfer.