Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!lpami
From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 15 Head Hard drive and the A2090(a)
Message-ID: <2426@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 13:45:19 GMT
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In <1735@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>, kevin@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Wallace B. Wallace) writes:
> I recently acquired a 15 head Hard Drive for my Amiga 2000 only to discover
> that the A2090(a) does not support >8 heads.  Has anyone figured out either
> (1) a way around this or (2) a different product that does support it?
> Any updates on an upgrade of the A2090(a) that will support them?  I'd hate
> to lose half of my storage even if I can upgrade it later.
>    BTW, the drive is a Fujitsu 2249SA, SCSI, 320M, 8 disks, 15 heads

Hmm... the 2090(a) does not support > 8 heads _on the ST506 port(s) only_.
It definitely _does_ support > 8 heads on the SCSI bus.

Here are my mountlist entries for a Fuji 70 meg drive that has been running for
about 8 months now.

RES2:      Device = hddisk.device
           Unit   = 3
           Flags  = 0
           Surfaces  = 10
           BlocksPerTrack = 17
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 1
           Buffers = 1
           BufMemType = 1
#

DHD:       Device = hddisk.device
           Unit   = 3
           Flags  = 0
           FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
           Surfaces  = 11
           BlocksPerTrack = 17
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl =  3 ;  HighCyl = 752
           DosType = 0x444F5301
           GlobVec = 1
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 1
           Mount = 1
#



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