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From: joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commodore says the 2090/2090A has a major BUG!
Message-ID: <5186@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 89 21:40:49 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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Hi,

We have been having a lot of problems around St. John's with hard
disk errors.  All of our Amiga 2000 users are using 2090/2090A
controllers.  So we all went to the two major Amiga stores and
tooled them of our problems.  They in turn phoned Commodore Canada
and asked why we where having such a bad time.  For the longest
time Commodore would tell us that we must have done something wrong
with out Mountlists.  When we asked them to look at our mountlists
Commodore could not find an error.  

Finally after about one year of getting on Commodore's back,
Commodore Canada has admitted to us that there is a BUG with the
2090A and that they have a new chip set coming out for the 2090A. 
The bug with the 2090/2090A chip set would/could cause problems
with some brads of hard disk.  They say that the new chip set will
let your Amiga use Rodnim(sp?) hard disks and a few others that
they have testes.  They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was
one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even
with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe
hard disks.  

One last comment that the guy from Commodore made really hit home
with the type of logic that the company lives on, "We can't tell
you about errors in the system, until such time as we have the
errors solved".  With a company working on logic like that I am
shocked that anyone would buy anything from them.

The new chip set will still use the same DMA as the old one was
using, but the problem did have to do with some odd video bits
getting put on your hard disk.

They aren't going to charge me for the new chips, and I really hope
they don't charge anyone else for the errors that they have made. 
The loss of data and the lies of Commodore will always make me
think twice when dealing with the company again.

Joseph Dawson
Computer Programmer