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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A2090 problems
Keywords: A2090 hard drive SCSI ST-506 Miniscribe
Message-ID: <0793.AA0793@caleb>
Date: 23 Apr 89 01:49:49 GMT
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     I am currently having problems transferring data between my two hard
drives.  I have a 20 Meg ST-506 (3.5") drive and a 40 Meg SCSI (3.5") [8051S]
drive.  Data transfer from the ST-506 drive to the SCSI drive works fine.
However, the other direction doesn't.  If I try to transfer large amounts of
data to the ST-506 drive, I get a visit to the Guru - guaranteed!  This happens
with both WorkBench and CLI copies.  Needless to say, this is somewhat annoying.
The SCSI drive is formatted FFS (except for a small OFS partition.)  The ST-506
drive is formatted OFS.  Is this a transfer rate problem?  (I wouldn't expect
Gurus, but what do I know?)  If so, will setting the MaxTransfer parameter
on the ST-506 drive fix it?  What should it be set to?

                              Thanks,


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                                         Jim Pritchett

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