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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Who's got the biggest SCSI drive actually functioning
Message-ID: <568@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:16:45 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <13191@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	2090's have problems with certain things, such as very large drives and
>drives with very large tracks ( >127 sectors I think ).  The A2091 is _far_
>better, as is the setup and partitioning software.

Does this mean it can be difficult to use the ST-296N 80MB drive with an A2090?

>
>	Hopefully that should end now that there's a standard piece of
>Commodore software that uses SCSIDirect (HDBackup/bru on 2.0).  We all have 
>SCSI tape drives here at Commodore-Amiga attached to our A2091's/A3000's.

Does/will this work with the A2090 also?

>With SCSIDirect, it's trivial to write a scsi-toy program that allows playing
>and looking around all the stuff in a scsi device, and it should work with
>all Amiga SCSI controllers, whereas for the PC market you'd have to write that

Again, does this hold true for the A2090 also?

As you may have deduced, I have an A2090, as do a lot of other people. With all
this talk about the A2091 I start wondering if I'm going to be locked out of a 
lot of this unless I start thinking about switching.

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