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From: jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2091 Interface (Why does Andy Finkel Lie his head off)
Message-ID: <9399@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 14:55:50 GMT
References: <5357@crash.cts.com> <13925@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <15615@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <15615@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
> In article <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

Hi, Andy.

I'm not going to call you are lier but I would appreciated if you can
give me some answers.   I have a A2000HD with a 2091 controller.
I also have two Hard disks cofingured as dh0 (Q40) and dh1 (Q80).

I also had the reselection off as I was told by a tech support rep from
CBM.  No problem so far.

It worked fine.  I even copied hard disk to hard disk (cp dh0: dh1: ) without
any problems.   Everything was fine until last week.

I was copying some files from a directory on my dh0: drive to another 
directory on my dh1: diretory (cp dh0:*.zoo dh1:Tmp ).  As I was doing this
I had another shell window open and did a dir on another directory on my
dh0: and next thing I know the disks hang.  The HD light was on, the disks
kept spinning and spinning .....  So I had no choice but to reboot.  But
when I rebooted I kept getting "...Error, can't validate dh1:....".

I had to reformat the disk.  I lost whole 80Meg of data.  Luckily I had
some of it backup but still I lost alot of work.  

I don't want to sound like I'm bitching here but I wish to avoid any other
"trojan horses" concerning the 2091.  I would like to know what I did wrong 
and is there any other "things" I shouldn't do that will crash my disks. 

I guess one thing good that came out of this is that from now on I'll be 
backing up everything that's on my hard disks.

Please inform me.

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