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From: teroach!stan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Quatum HD on 2091A
Keywords: In article <8129@fy.sei.cmu.edu> jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee) writes:
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Date: 6 Aug 90 21:57:13 GMT
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Reply-To: teroach!stan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Stan Fisher)
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Summary:

>
>I too have been having some trouble connecting 2 Quantum Hard disks on my
>Ami2000HD using 2091A controller.  I have a Pro 40s and 80s drives.
>I wanted to copy the 40meg drive onto the 80 using 
>	copy dh0: dh1: CLONE.
>
>But it doesn't work.  It copies for awhile then gets "stuck".
>I called CBM and they told me that I should make sure the reselection 
>option in define drive part of HDtoolbox should be turned off for both
>drives.  This should fix the problem.  
>I would like to know if this is a correct solution or just another 
>bunch of crap that they gave me to get me off the phone. 
>I would like to try it but it's going to take alot of work and time since
>I have to back up the drives since this will wipe out all the data.
>Any info will be very much helpful.

I was told (first) that the new ROMs for the 2091 would fix this problem..
I bought the new ROMs and tried two drives (doing a copy clone too) and 
a ways into the copy it hung (same symptom you have and same one I'd had
before the ROMs).  Then I heard about the reselection problem and I tried
that, tuning off reselection for both drives and saving that to each drive.
This doesn't wipe out the drive contents, the information is stored
(apparently) in the rigid disk block (cyl 0,1) and doesn't effect the 
current partition contents.  So far the drives havn't hung since I did
that.. though I haven't done a full "copy all clone" yet. (mine used to hang
during other activity too besides the copy all clone.) 

My question is what the hell did I buy the Firmware update for?  That was
$32 I could have used elsewhere!


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