IO91461@MAINE.BITNET (Tom Nezwek) (11/06/90)
I guess my last posting was I little rash... I still do feel that
commodore is avoiding other netter's problems with the 2091. I
would like to throw a few harmless little questions into the air.
1. Commodore says that turning off reselection reduces
the problems of hanging to zero when using multiple hds.
Q: So why have people who have already done this
still experienced the same problem? Sounds like
their solution did not work...
2. Commodore says that this problem exists only in the
newest 2091's that have a particular chip.
Q: So why (when I owned a 2090a a long time ago)
did I also experience the same problems. It
sounds to me like the problem has been around
for a long time now. Besides I know someone
who's 2091 is over a year old and suffers from
this same problem.
3. Q: Commodore knows that a problem exists, so
why don't they offer to ship new controllers
(that do not have this problem) to those 2091
owners who have this problem. It was not the
purchaser's fault that there is a bug in some
2091's that doesn't allow them to use multiple
drives.
I hope this posting is not offensive.. These were the
ideas that were on my mind when I posted last...
-Tom Nezwekken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) (11/28/90)
In article <90310.100102IO91461@MAINE.BITNET> IO91461@MAINE.BITNET (Tom Nezwek) writes: > >I guess my last posting was I little rash... I still do feel that >commodore is avoiding other netter's problems with the 2091... > >1. Commodore says that turning off reselection reduces the problems of > hanging to zero when using multiple hds. > Q: So why have people who have already done this still experienced the > same problem? Sounds like their solution did not work... The 2091 is fine. Turning off reselection does exactly what it should. There was a problem with Syquest drives, but this appears to have been fixed by a new ROM release from _Syquest_. The problem was not with the controller. >2. Commodore says that this problem exists only in the newest 2091's that > have a particular chip. > Q: So why (when I owned a 2090a a long time ago) did I also experience > the same problems. It sounds to me like the problem has been around > for a long time now. Besides I know someone who's 2091 is over a year > old and suffers from this same problem. Again, these are not the same controllers. The 2091 was designed from scratch, and will not inheret anything from the 2090a. >3. Q: Commodore knows that a problem exists, so why don't they offer to ship > new controllers (that do not have this problem) to those 2091 owners who > have this problem. It was not the purchaser's fault that there is a bug > in some 2091's that doesn't allow them to use multiple drives. One more time...The 2091 works with multiple SCSI drives that follow the SCSI spec. Broken drives may or may not work with the controller. > -Tom Nezwek -- -- Ken Farinsky - CATS - (215) 431-9421 - Commodore Business Machines uucp: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com or ...{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!ken bix: kfarinsky