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From: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: How do I do a Seek using hddisk.device??
Message-ID: <11715@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 16:31:00 GMT
References: <20108@gryphon.COM> <7968@cbmvax.UUCP>
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In article <7968@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <20108@gryphon.COM> rickf@pnet02.gryphon.com (Rick Flower) writes:
>>I'm looking to write a nice little hard drive part routine and was reading

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>	Welllll,,, it'll work with the A590, A2091, GVP, Hardframe, and a few
>others, but it probably won't work well on the A2090 (until we redo the driver)
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>The A2090 was designed long before the scsidisk standard was standardized
>(ditto for RigidDiskBlocks (hardblocks.h).
>
>As for the boot info on the disk, we have not published it's format anywhere,
>though I suspect you could figure it out, mostly.  When we redo the driver
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(from ground up) it'll switch to RigidDiskBlocks (we encourage ALL hd
>controller manufacturers to switch).
>-- 
>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
>{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
>Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"

When...? Until....?  PLEASE HURRY!  I keep hearing that the A2090A will get
a new driver to handle SCSI direct (which I think it needs DESPARATELY!) 
Do I understand that "WHEN" this occurs the 2090 will also support
hardblocks?  That would be FANTASTIC!  Commodore....  If you do all this for
the 2090A...  I'll take back all those things I said about you. ;^D
Actually I've been somewhat (read extremely) depressed that, by the time
all was said and done,  I was going to have owned every single 209Xx
Controller you guys have/will release(d), just to get a real good one that
does everything it should.  I took a loss going from 2090 to 2090a, I
really didn't want to have to bend over again for the 2091. 
So... Tell me..  When do you guys think such an update will be available?
Will the update be both firmware AND software?  I wanta hook up a streamer
soooooooooo bad.  8^}

 

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