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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Removable Harddrive help
Message-ID: <18226@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:04:54 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.043645.5054@cs.wayne.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <1991Jan27.043645.5054@cs.wayne.edu> jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>
>Hi, I have an A2000 with GVP's 3001 accelerator and SCSI controller
>hooked up to a SyQuest removable drive system.
>
>At work we are running from an A2500 with the same Syquest drive using
>Commodore's A2091 (although I suspect we really have the A2090).  The
>problem is I can't format disks using the GVP program that is readable
>by the A2500.  I can however format disks on the A2500 and have them
>readable on my A2000.

	That sounds like a difference in the implementations of the
RigidDiskBlock spec.  I'll try to track down what it is with GVP.

>Also sometimes I experience a freeze of the machine when I'm copying a
>large # of files from the Syquest to the internal drive on the A2500.

	Make sure you have reselection turned off when you set up (HDToolBox)
the disks.  See the articles I've published here before.  When the ROMs
are available you'll want to upgrade the 2091.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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