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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2091 Interface (Why does Andy Finkel Lie his head off)
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Date: 5 Nov 90 07:35:58 GMT
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In <90306.093239IO91461@MAINE.BITNET>, IO91461@MAINE.BITNET (Tom Nezwek) writes:
> I'm real sick of reading Commodore's lies to the public concerning
> the 2090a and 2091a controllers... In the last go around
> Commodore's Andy Finkel said quote 'its only the new chips that
> show the problem' Wrong! I had a 2090a quite a while back that
> was made in 1988.  It exhibited the same hang problems when using
> multiple drives.  So its not just a few isolated new 2091
> controllers..!  I'd like to know why Commodore keeps telling us
> either that there is no problem or that only the newer controllers
> have this fault because neither is true....
> 
>                              -Tom Nezwek

The 2090a and 2091 use two different SCSI chips. They use different support
circuitry. They use different software. How could they possibly suffer from the
'same' hang problems? A hang on one is not necessarily the result of the same
problem as on the other.

I hope someone reads this to you.

-larry

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    -D.Wolfskill
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