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From: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now what?  (Hard Disk woes.)
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Date: 17 Mar 88 08:16:03 GMT
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>On a related note: Is it true that there is a limit of 8 surfaces (heads)
>for hard drives?  If so, is this limit imposed by the 2090 controller,
>or something else?  This sounds like something that can't be fixed by just
>creating more partitions.

	The A2090 can only handle 8 heads on each ST506 drive (the original
maximum).  The drives with > 8 heads use a line that was for something else
as a head address line.  The A2090 can handle any size SCSI drive.  The
limitation on ST-506 drives is because of the standard chipset being used.

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