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From: kaz@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: hard disk flaw problems
Message-ID: <1888@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 14:57:52 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1888
Posted: Tue Nov 24 14:57:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 12:06:43 EST
References: <1884@cadovax.UUCP> <2605@masscomp.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Keywords: hard disk format flaws

In article <2605@masscomp.UUCP> rad@masscomp.UUCP (Bob Doolittle) writes:
>In article <1884@cadovax.UUCP> kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman) writes:
>
>I have heard from my local service rep that you can't tell the 2090
>about a disk with greater than 50Mb capacity :-(.  
>

Is this TRUE???  There is no documented limitation of 50Mb I have heard
or read about.  Could someone at Commodore please confirm or deny this?

>
>>3.  Why does the format retry so much?  It seems to be wasting its time
>>    going for fifteen minutes on the same cylinder.  And, why does it
>>    quit instead of going to the next cylinder?
>I think this is all due to the 50Mb limit.  Not a particularly graceful
>or informative error message :-|.
>

I don't think if there is such a limit, that that is my problem.  Cylindar
205 is only about 18Mb into the drive.  There are a total of 754 cylindars
with 11 heads each on this drive, so I am nowhere near 50Mb when format
starts having trouble.

Thanks for your response, Bob, but I hope more answers to the original
posting are forthcomming.

Kerry Zimmerman
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