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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What controller to use with the A2000?
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Date: 31 Mar 89 20:50:52 GMT
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In article <16433@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
>
> He has a ST-506 drive on the 2090 right now.. and sorry, but it does NOT
>, I repeat NOT map out bad blocks!! At least not on the ST-506 drives. When
>we first had this hunch that it was not, I posted a message to Usenet and 
>(not to get him into any trouble) Bruce said that the software did not 
>do this and he was re-writing it. This was last July. Since we have not
>seen hide nor hair of new software. My friend just wants to sell his
>2090.

It would be a shame, since just trading your ST-506 for a SCSI disk
will do the trick.  ST-506's are not SCSI, and therefore have not
smarts.  SCSI disks are the ones that (usually) have bad block
mapping.  Of course, most of these don't map bad blocks on the fly,
but only when you re-format them, so don't expect miracles.
Considering the fact that you can't get much for a 2090 (or I would have
sold mine and gotten a 2090A) you'll be losing a chunk of money just to
get a slower card.

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	Can you "Spot the Looney"?