Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!halo From: halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore says the 2090/2090A has a major BUG! Message-ID: <5948@cognos.UUCP> Date: 26 Apr 89 13:54:50 GMT References: <5186@garfield.MUN.EDU> Reply-To: halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 26 In article pboudrea@topaz.rutgers.edu (Boudreau) writes: >>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. > >Gee, thats funny. I've been using a Miniscribe hard disk with my 2090 >since I bought it. Care to elaborate? Me too. In fact, it was the drive of choice for the Amiga technicians who helped configure my 2000. It is running on the 2090, 3 partitions, no problems. Mind you, it was a pain to partition with 1.3 simply because the initial setup simply used Binddrivers with no explicit Mount information, so I had to fiddle to get the Prep parameters. I'd really like to get an elaboration on this. -- Hal O'Connell Cognos Incorporated UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!halo P.O. Box 9707 VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x5933 3755 Riverside Dr. FAX: 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1G 3Z4