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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MORE ON 2090/2090A bug...
Message-ID: <8064.AA8064@heimat>
Date: 27 Apr 89 02:50:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
Lines: 44

In Message <5191@garfield.MUN.EDU>, joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes:

>I am using a slow 40 MEG MiniScribe.  I am also running a BBS so
>I have my hard disk working all the time.  I do a lot of hard disk
>multi-tasking with the BBS and Dpaint II and about every other
>great Amiga program on the go.

  I run a BBS that uses four (4) MiniScribe 20 meg hard drives and two (2)
  CBM A2090 controllers. It has been on-line (IE: running) for almost one
  year and not one disk related problem. It is not the machine *I* use
  (heimat) so it does not really have any serious multitasking going on.

  The machine *I* use does have an 2090A with a 20 meg MiniScrib and a
  40 meg Control Data. This machine does receive and do alot of multi-
  tasking. The MiniScribe is used only for UUCP/UseNet and take my word
  for it that code does some heavy use (ok so maybe its really abuse :-)
  of the hard drive when unencoding and moving those messages around.
  Ive been beating this drive for over a year with not one problem.

  One thing id like to point out is when CBM produced the "dealer demo"
  machines, they used an A2090 and MiniScrib hard drive. As far as I
  know this was a very solid and trouble free setup. These machines
  were (are ?) used for demoing multitasking and other things that the
  abusive public could throw at em.

>7)  He was not 100% sure about anything he was taking about!

  This is the one thing im sure he was 100% correct about. Next time
  you call obtain a name, title, and please tell us where your calling
  (USA, CANADA, CATS, Customer Service, Shipping, ect).

  Dont take this reply as an attack on you or the comments you relayed,
  im just listing my personal experiences with these products.

  Sneakers

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