jca@homxc.UUCP (J.ANTROSIGLIO) (01/08/88)
Awhile ago I heard Commodore released a replacement hard disk driver for
the A2090. Somehow I missed it. Could some kind soul please email me
a copy. Pleaseeeee!
Thanks In Advance,
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John C. Antrosiglio
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
(201)949-2374
ihnp4!{homxc|hotlf|hotld}!jcaspace@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau) (11/10/88)
I have bought an A2090 about a year ago, and never had any problems with the hddisk that came with the original hard disk software disk, it worked fine with FFS, too. Some time ago a friend of mine with a BIX account downloaded a hddisk from BIX contributed by Andy Finkel himself. I installed, because I thought that a new release shurely had less bugs than the old. This hddisk has also performed flawlessly since then. Yesterday I accidentally booted my hard disk (Rodime SCSI 40MB) from an old disk with the old hddisk. After a few operations I got the first "Volume Root (that's my HD) has a read/write error" requester. I clicked "retry" and everything went fine. But whenever I read a certain file the first time after boot up, I got this error. I booted with the new hddisk and voila: no error. So my question is: what are the differences between the old and the new version? Which bug(s) lead to the developping of a new version? Why did I get that error? I include the information from BIX about the new hddisk. I don't think I am violating anyone's rights doing that. ------------------------------------------------ hd34_4.arc 7552 Approx time (min): 8 at 300 baud, 2 at 1200 baud Contributed by: afinkel Date: Thu May 26 15:46:35 1988 ARC Latest Hddisk.device for the A2090 Keywords: $binary 2090,harddisk, Download count: 37 ------------------------------------------------ My old hddisk has 8200 bytes, the new one has 9436 bytes. I am using the old hddisk.info (of course). Thanks for any information! -- Lars Soltau UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space BIX: -- no bucks -- Here's looking at you, kid! -- the Medusa