Steve.Hoult@f39.n228.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Hoult) (08/05/90)
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SO> > 2090's have problems with certain things, such as very large dr
SO> >drives with very large tracks ( >127 sectors I think ). The A2091 is
SO> >better, as is the setup and partitioning software.
SO>
SO> Does this mean it can be difficult to use the ST-296N 80MB drive with a
SO> 2090?
Absolutely not. I was getting fairly good results using the 2090/296N
combination. DiskSpeed 3.0 (Michael Sinz) reported 375K reads and 201K
writes. I did have the drive partitioned off though. The largest was 30
Meg or so.
SO> > Hopefully that should end now that there's a standard piece of
SO> >Commodore software that uses SCSIDirect (HDBackup/bru on 2.0). We all
SO> >SCSI tape drives here at Commodore-Amiga attached to our A2091's/A3000
SO>
SO> Does/will this work with the A2090 also?
Please say YES! I really need a better route then floppies to back up my
drives!!!!!! I've been looking at Tape Drives and other removable media
drives and the big question has been, "Will it work with ANY of the
SCSI/ST-506 interfaces I have?". No one has been able to tell me it will.
SO> As you may have deduced, I have an A2090, as do a lot of other people.
I'm one of those people still clinging to that old 2090 card. Although
it mostly just sits in a box until I need to use a ST-506 drive. If I
could use it to talk to a tape backup I buy one yesterday!
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