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- From: f88tomas@fy.chalmers.se (Tomas Bengtsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A2090 problem with large drive
- Keywords: A2090 problem HD Disk space
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190740.10999@fy.chalmers.se>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:07:40 GMT
- References: <1485@igd.fhg.de> <1992Sep7.153513.3315@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden
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- In article <1485@igd.fhg.de> john@igd.fhg.de (Werner John) writes:
- >I need help.
- >
- >Here it is: I recently got a 425MB disk and connected it to my good old
- >A2090, no autoboot, ok. Installing, formatting, etc, no problem.
- >BUT: if data is accessed that is in a sector above sector number 524288,
- >I get checksum errors, as many as you like. I partitioned the drive so
- >that only the first 520000 (or so) sectors are used, but I want it all!
- >
- I remember someone writing about that sometime ago, and he stated that the 2090
- can't deal with HDs with more than 8 heads (or was it 4?). That is all I remember
- about it.
-
- Tomas
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