Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!yuan From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2090A Message-ID: <2714@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 27 Nov 88 09:52:34 GMT References:<13655@oberon.USC.EDU> Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang) Organization: Univ. of Barbarians. Honolulu, Hawaii Lines: 19 In article cb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris Beasley) writes: > [About the 2090A] >Also will the seagate ST4096 work with this controller? In article <13655@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >If I recall correctly the Seagate ST4096 is a 5 1/4in FULL HEIGHT ST506. >As such it will work with the A2090, BUT cannot be put inside the A2000, >which accepts only HALF HEIGHT drives. You CAN though buy a $100 externally >powered disk enclosure and have the cable run outside through one of the >connector holes. Look in Computer Shopper for the drive enclosure. Doesn't the 2090 work only with drives with 8 heads or less? The ST-4096 has 9 heads, so I guess you'll need the 2090A to use the drive to its full capacity anyway... -- Yuan Chang "What can go wrong, did" UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!yuan ARPA: uhccux!yuan@nosc.MIL "Wouldn't you like to INTERNET: yuan@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU be an _A_m_i_g_o_i_d too?!?"