peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (02/05/91)
In article <schilli.665666130@ss4> schilli@ss4 (Burkhard Schillinger) writes: > > had been running two hard disks in my Sidecar for quite a long > time without any problems, each both with PC and Amiga partitions. > Now, I found a bigger hard disk, 42 MB, which would give 65 MB when > formatted with my RLL controller, Perhaps already this is the problem. From day 1 we got reports about difficulties when using an RLL disk. All these errors were not well reproducible, and in ca. 50 % of the cases, also RLL works fine. So there is no real idea until now what's really happening there. We simply recommend to not use RLL drives :-). > While the PC controller has no problems maintaining two different hd's, > the janus software is buggy. The number of cylinders is being passed on > correctly, but the software only reads the number of heads of > the first partition on the first hd on the controller and assumes all > further partitions to have the same number of heads. Aha, this gives some more details. Perhaps someone of engineering can take this as input to do a more direct search for the cause of all this in the code. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk