Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 15 Head Hard drive and the A2090(a)
Message-ID: <8388.AA8388@heimat>
Date: 26 May 89 00:44:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <17399@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
+--
|In article <8356.AA8356@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
|>  True, BUT not to be overlooked (ill mention it since no one else has so far)
|>  is the fact that with an adapter (like the Adaptec 4000A or 4070) you can
|>  run your ST-506 drive from the SCSI port. This is great for running drives
|>  with > 8 heads -or- for running up to 4 ST-506 drives off one 2090 ;-)
|								 ^^^^
|
|Except that none of the Adaptec adapters can be "prep"-ed with the 2090 or
|2090A. Some claim that after prepping an Adaptec with "another" adapter,
|the resuling disk will be recognized by the 2090x, but I have no direct
|experience of this.
+--
  I have no hands on experience with this on an Amiga either, but I have made
  it work on a MAC, and I have used a MAC (genuine Apple) SCSI drive on my
  2090. Based on this I presumed (perhaps wrongly) that it would work. If
  anyone has first hand info on if this works (or not) with the CBM 2090
  boards, I welcome e-mail with the details. Since I had planned on using
  this trick later this summer ;-).

  Sneakers

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