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From: zik@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Michael Saleeba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 2090A SCSI addressing braindamage?
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.162221.20434@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 3 Jun 91 16:22:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: phoenix.1991Jun3.162221.20434
Distribution: comp
Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia.
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I just got my 300Mb Wren IV drive working with a 2090A controller via SCSI.
All seemed well until I formatted the last partition, when suddenly my first
(OFS) partition started spewing out errors. I theorised that beyond a certain
point on the disk it was munging early tracks, and tried to isolate the first
track where the problem occurred. I soon realised that it seemed to be pretty
close to the track which corresponded to exactly 256Mb on the disk.

My question is: Does the 2090A have a 19 bit limit on its SCSI block addresses,
and if it does; aarrrggghhhh!

Zik