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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: QUESTION: 2090 or 2090A with multiple 256MB parts?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 01:04:47 GMT
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- LT> In article <DJz17n.D27@ecf.toronto.edu> tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu (TSANG
- LT> Calum Thomas) writes:
- >>
- >> I need to know, if a 2090 or 2090A or both can run MULTIPLE partitions
- >> of less than 256MB. I know it won't do single partitions, (I wrote the
- >> FAQ) but I'm in FAQ update mode and working away. If you have done
- >> this, are using it, or did it, and it worked, please email me. No
- >> speculation, I need a solid answer.
- >>
- >> Thanks! you'll be in the FAQ for it! :)
-
- LT> The A2090a controller cannot use more than the first 256 megs of a
- LT> drive, no matter how you partition it.
-
- LT> I recently got a 540 meg SCSI hard drive and was hoping to be able
- LT> to connect it to my A2090a controller using multiple 105 meg
- LT> partitions to allow easy backup to my SyQuest drive of the same size.
- LT> I was only able to mount the first two partitions. Attempts to mount
- LT> the third (which would have exceeded the 256 meg mark) were futile.
- LT> Investigating this, I progressively reduced the size of the third
- LT> partition, and it worked when the size was lowered to the 256 meg
- LT> mark.
-
- LT> I got the A2090 FAQ and found the information correct, but misleading.
- LT> In some places it states that multiple 256 meg partitions are
- LT> possible. This may be true if using the patched device driver givin in
- LT> the FAQ. I was not able to test this driver as it requires an MMU to
- LT> patch the existing driver on the A2090a roms.
-
- I don't have the patchfile as I don't have the FAQ, but I do have an unused
- a2090 that works AFAIK. I also have access to a burner. I might be able to
- apply the patch to the rom image and reburn them. And do so for others if
- it can be made to work. Where's the FAQ?
-
- Cheers all
-
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