e5pj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (10/15/90)
I have a question about the A2090 HD controller. I just got a Maxtor XT-8380S, 300Meg Harddrive and tried to format it on my Amiga using the A2090 contoller. It just wouldn't do it! It could prep the drive, but wouldn't format the drive. I had no problem with my other 20Meg SCSI drive and followed instructions to the point, but with no luck. I then took the MAXTOR drive to my friends Amiga with a GVP HD controller and it formatted without any problems!!! I was then told that the A2090 doesn't handle large drives. Is that true? If anybody has had similar problsm with the A2090 and harddrives, and have found a solution to it, could you please e-mail me? Thanks! ***Vincent***
keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (10/24/90)
In article <1990Oct14.173105.383@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> e5pj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > > I have a question about the A2090 HD controller. > > I just got a Maxtor XT-8380S, 300Meg Harddrive and tried to format it >on my Amiga using the A2090 contoller. > I then took the MAXTOR drive to my friends Amiga with a GVP HD >controller and it formatted without any problems!!! > I was then told that the A2090 doesn't handle large drives. Is that >true? If anybody has had similar problsm with the A2090 and harddrives, and >have found a solution to it, could you please e-mail me? Thanks! > It may be that the 2090 won't format _fast_ drives and that the size isn't the problem. I recently used the 2090 to format a Maxtor XT-3280S (280 Megabytes unformatted capacity) and it worked fine: I just followed the standard "cookbook" instructions. I'm new enuff with Amiga hard-disks to still be afraid of them, but all went well. My 3280 is a 10 Megabit/second drive; I think your 8380 may be a 15 Megabit/sec version. Thus, the 2090 may not be capable of handling the data stream? kEITHe PS - I'd've (huh?) e-mailed this privately to the original poster but I think some "informed contribution" might be in order here - any volunteers?