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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
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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...
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