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From: ler@lerami.UUCP (Larry Rosenman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Maxtor XT-3280S/2090
Message-ID: <0499.AA0499@lerami>
Date: 19 May 89 02:43:24 GMT
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HELP...

        I got one of Bill Seymours BIG drives, and am having trouble with
getting it and my 2090 to get along....

        What happens is i cant get the thing to format all the way
through... It seems to hang or FORMAT aborts with format failed, cant open
device.  

        It seems to be timing related, and I am very confused.

SPECS:

1224 cylinders of 15 tracks/cylinder, 26 sectors/track

SCSI


I have tried 3 400 cylinder partitions, and a 25 cylinder partition, and
NONE of them format cleanly.

I suspect the 2090 driver, but cant be sure.

I also have a 40Meg ST-251 ST-506 drive ON THE SAME 2090, that works fine.

Anyone have any bright ideas?  E-Mail or Phone please!!!

Hardware:

B2000, 4.3 motherboard, Cherry KBD, CMI PA (with 14MhZ ROM), 68881, A-2052,
512K agnus, A2090, ST-251, CHERRY3 fix from bix, NAG, POPCLI4, COLORTEXT
from BIX, 34.20 WOrkBench.

HELP.

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