#A2090A and big HD
31-Dec-94 09:32:18
Sb: #180069-#A2090A and big HD
Fm: Harald W. Schulz 100022,744
To: Kelly Jordan 76475,1146
Yes, but…
Sorry that I can only confirm your distrust, the (newer)
hddisk-software in the ROM on the _2090A_ does not manage _harddisks_
> 270 MB. The old software for the _2090_ (hddisk-file in the
expansion-drawer necessary, length 8,2kb) could do this.
Before my own 2090A died, I had a solution with pulled
autoboot-ROM's, and a small batchfile for copying the elder or newer
version "hddisk" into the expansion-drawer, and then rebooting. Sorry
no autoboot from the 2090(A) then. If you want to try, you may find
the newer "hddisk"-file in the expansion-drawer of the
Installation-disk for OS 2.0 or OS 2.1. If you have a SyQuest, you
must use the new file.
By the way, the 2090 _can't_ read the RDB with OS 2/3, but can
_write_ a RDB usable for other SCSI-boards, if you fill in the
_right_ values for heads, sectors, tracks, etc. in HDToolbox, and
save the RDB. Funny.
If you have no own source for the old "hddisk"-version, send me cmail.
…and good luck for the new year!
Harry with AP (from Germany)