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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 15 Head Hard drive and the A2090(a)
Message-ID: <11713@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 18:14:57 GMT
References: <1735@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> <680@dialog.UUCP> <040b02ba29ZN01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <040b02ba29ZN01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) writes:
>In article <680@dialog.UUCP> root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) writes:
...
>>The standard ST506 does support only 8 heads by definition. Since the A2090
>>has a "true" ST506 interface onboard, it complies with this standard. I do
...
>The 2090A's biggest problem is it's poor documentation.  Nowhere in
>the dos do they tell you that the only specs that matter with a
>SCSI device is block size and number of blocks.  You can factor out
>the number of blocks on the device into
>the number of heads, number of blocks per track and number of
>cylinders any way you want.


This is really getting me upset -- well, a little upset anyway.

I had this CDC Wren II (ST506 interface) that I was trying to hook
to my 2090A some time ago.  And the damn thing simply would NOT work
there.  I couldn't figger out why and that was after much wrangling
around with everything and making sure my cables were all correct and
everything.

What did I do?  I took the 67 meg drive outta my 3b1 and have *it* on
my Amiga now and the CDC drive on the 3b1.  *THAT* is what I did.  But
part of doing that required backing up all my files -- which I did over
modem (Trailblazers are fun) to school and etc.  But my 3b1 has never
been the same ever since I restored everything.... sigh

So now what do I find out?  The damn 2090A doesn't support >8 heads
and the CDC drive is 9 heads!!!!!  So no wonder it didn't work.!?

And the damn manual doesn't even tell you this.  And the customer
support crowd were very little help when I called 'em up.

Oh wellllll...  I'll crawl off in a corner now and sulk ... sorry
to have made this outburst.
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