Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!eric From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2090A and DMA (was: Re: 2000-and-1 expansion box) Message-ID: <10682@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 3 Oct 88 04:48:37 GMT References: <1925@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <7246@well.UUCP> <10313@s.ms.uky.edu> <12453@oberon.USC.EDU> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 In article kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >In article <12453@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >> The 2090A is identical to the 2090 except that it has autoboot ROMs. > >Uh ... I really hope this is just an over generalization you've made, Marco, >and not true. I had thought the 54 Meg partition size limitation/bug was to >have gotten fixed in the 2090A. And also the number of heads limit, etc. The 54 Meg partition problem was a limitation caused by a "bug" in the original (slow) file system, it has nothing to do with firmware on the 2090/A. The only real problem that should have been fixed in the 2090A firmware was the limitation of 8 heads or less for ST-506 devices. >CATS? Thank the lord we have them! >/kim Eric ARPA: eric@topaz.rutgers.edu or eric@ulysses.att.com UUCP: {att,ucbvax}!ulysses!eric or {wherever!}rutgers!topaz!eric SNAIL: 34 Maplehurst Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854 "To err is human; To really f*ck up requires the root password."