joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) (04/23/89)
Hi, We have been having a lot of problems around St. John's with hard disk errors. All of our Amiga 2000 users are using 2090/2090A controllers. So we all went to the two major Amiga stores and tooled them of our problems. They in turn phoned Commodore Canada and asked why we where having such a bad time. For the longest time Commodore would tell us that we must have done something wrong with out Mountlists. When we asked them to look at our mountlists Commodore could not find an error. Finally after about one year of getting on Commodore's back, Commodore Canada has admitted to us that there is a BUG with the 2090A and that they have a new chip set coming out for the 2090A. The bug with the 2090/2090A chip set would/could cause problems with some brads of hard disk. They say that the new chip set will let your Amiga use Rodnim(sp?) hard disks and a few others that they have testes. They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe hard disks. One last comment that the guy from Commodore made really hit home with the type of logic that the company lives on, "We can't tell you about errors in the system, until such time as we have the errors solved". With a company working on logic like that I am shocked that anyone would buy anything from them. The new chip set will still use the same DMA as the old one was using, but the problem did have to do with some odd video bits getting put on your hard disk. They aren't going to charge me for the new chips, and I really hope they don't charge anyone else for the errors that they have made. The loss of data and the lies of Commodore will always make me think twice when dealing with the company again. Joseph Dawson Computer Programmer
pboudrea@topaz.rutgers.edu (Boudreau) (04/23/89)
>they have testes. They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was >one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even >with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe >hard disks. Gee, thats funny. I've been using a Miniscribe hard disk with my 2090 since I bought it. Care to elaborate?
bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) (04/23/89)
In article <5186@garfield.MUN.EDU> joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes: =-with some brads of hard disk. They say that the new chip set will =-let your Amiga use Rodnim(sp?) hard disks and a few others that ^-No, Nimrod. =-they have testes. They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was =-one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even =-with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe =-hard disks. =- Complete nonsense; I and several others that I know of have used/are using Miniscribe drives with the 2090 (ST 506). You should be careful about posting things based on third hand hearsay, especially when it's been filtered by a dealer, most of whom are notoriously incompetent. And definitely leave people's gonads out of the discussion; this isn't alt.sex, after all. ______________________________________________________________________________ /_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _No dark sarcasm in the classroom|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ |____Teachers leave the kids alone__|_____|_____|_____|_bryan@cs.utexas.edu___| ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|{vertebrae...}!cs.utexas.edu!bryan_|___ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) (04/26/89)
In article <Apr.22.18.13.31.1989.16042@topaz.rutgers.edu> pboudrea@topaz.rutgers.edu (Boudreau) writes: >>they have testes. They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was >>one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even >>with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe >>hard disks. > >Gee, thats funny. I've been using a Miniscribe hard disk with my 2090 >since I bought it. Care to elaborate? Me too. In fact, it was the drive of choice for the Amiga technicians who helped configure my 2000. It is running on the 2090, 3 partitions, no problems. Mind you, it was a pain to partition with 1.3 simply because the initial setup simply used Binddrivers with no explicit Mount information, so I had to fiddle to get the Prep parameters. I'd really like to get an elaboration on this. -- Hal O'Connell Cognos Incorporated UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!halo P.O. Box 9707 VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x5933 3755 Riverside Dr. FAX: 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1G 3Z4
jason@ziebmef.uucp (Jason Gould) (04/30/89)
In article <5186@garfield.MUN.EDU> joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes: > [lots of stuff deleted] >they have testes. They made it quite clear that the MiniScribe was >one of the hard disk that would not work with the 2090/2090A, even >with the new chip set you will not be able to use the MiniScribe >hard disks. > [more stuff deleted] I've been running a 2000 equipted with a MiniScribe drive & 2090A ever since August without any problems; and more importantly, Commodore Canada configured my system!!!! I doubt they would of fitted my 2000 with the MiniScribe drive if they thought there were any problems with it. -- Jason Gould ....!{utcsri,attcan}!tmsoft!ziebmef!jason jason@ziebmef.UUCP ENVOY 100: JASON.G
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (05/03/89)
Really ... I've got a MiniScribe on my 2090A too!
I've tried a CDC Wren II (full-height 80 meg 28 ms) which wouldn't
work on the 2090A and the MiniScribe (forget the model number) which
originally came with my 3b1. I have the CDC in the 3b1 now and
the miniscribe in the Amiga. Unfortunately the CDC is flaky :-(
The miniscribe works *fine* though.
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