Re: Doorst: Amiga 500 + A590

From: Ethan Dicks (ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 1999-10-19 23:43:00

--- Sami Rautiainen <Sami.Rautiainen@DataFellows.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> At 17:33 19.10.1999 GMT, g.j.p.a.baltissen@kader.hobby.nl wrote:
> >
> >I got an Amiga 500 plus A590-HD for free. 

Congrats.

> However, I can't recall if A590 supports booting on the Kickstart ROM R1.2
> at all. As a general rule, hard drives are bootable only with Kickstart
> R1.3 or later but there was some controllers that were able to boot under
> R1.2 as well.

What controllers would that be?  The 1.2 ROM contains no boot code.  Only
the 1.3 ROMs and newer can autoboot on power-up.

-ethan


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