Wanted: A2090 SCSI/MFM controller

[nimtene]

Please let me know if you have one of these
available. I know they're not the easiest
of things to use, nor the best choice, nor
the fastest, etc, but I need one to access
data I have on an old MFM hard drive. Also,
if you have a A2090B (Autoboot Card) as well,
that would be very useful to me. Thank you!

Regards,
Chris Vick

[Terse]

This guy says he has one
http:www.classicgames.talkspot.com
I tried contacting him without success.

[joekster]

This machine contains one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-Amiga-Video-Toaster-2500-ToasterVision_W0QQitemZ180137017126QQihZ008QQcategoryZ4598QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[TjLaZer]

Damn A2500's came with 2090's?  Hmmmm....

[nimtene]

You're right, Joekster! Good eye!

[Jeff]

I don't know where either of you are, but McVenco just posted a message about a 2090;

Link to forum post about 2090

[nimtene]

Thanks, but I already talked to him; He
had sold his A2090 about six months ago.

[starf81]

If I'm not wrong, I should have one into my A2000 and I could swap it... if you're interested, send me a pmail!

Where are you located?

Alex

[Zac67]

I've got an A2090A (autoboot!) shelved, unused for ~10 years when I played with it in my A3k (it did work) - what's the offer? Anything to swap? Where are you at?

I think I might even have a 20 Meg ST506 HDD that should work with it... :-D

If you want to access an old MFM drive it must have been formatted with the very same controller type.

[nimtene]

If you want to access an old MFM drive it must have been formatted with the very same controller type.

Understandable; How many possibilities does this
leave me with? A2090 or A2090a? Any others? If it
was formatted with the A2090a, will the A2090 not
work, etc?

[Zac67]

I just wanted to point out that an A2090 would not get you data written by another controller. A2090/A are interchangeable in that respect, of course. No other choice though.

[McVenco]

Jeff wrote:

McVenco just posted a message about a 2090

October 27th? "Just posted" is quite broad in your opinion then :lol:

[Jeff]

Sorry, guess I missed that one:-D

[orange]

I used it with MFM harddisk and was surprised to see it working fine. You just need some binddrivers or something. I used dcp to dump all hdd into single file like dd on linux.

[Amiga4k]

Just checked by cards. I have 5 A2090 and 1 A2090a.
Might have some cables.