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In <810864730snz@yolk.demon.co.uk> Meg Lee Chin O'Leary <egg@yolk.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Does anybody know of ANYONE who has managed to get the Quantum Empire 2100s
>working with the Atari Falcon? The Falcon doesn't recognize the drive. 
>Apparently the Falcon is designed for scsi2 and the Empire is scsiIII. Today 
>I called System Solutions about it. They told me that it would work if 
>I had an internal hard drive to boot the HD-Driver(tm) software from (yes) 
>and put the SCSI Arbitration setting on. I went down there and bought the 
>aforementioned software from them.

>Guess what? It doesn't work. The man at System Solutions said there were
>definately people out there who managed to get it to work. The other strange
>thing is that although the spec's for the Empire 2100s on Quantum's web page
>claim it is SCSI3, the drive unit uses a normal Scsi2 50 pin connector.
>Wierd. Do you know of anyone at all who has managed to get it to work? How
>did they do it?

I don't think the Quantum is SCSI3, if I am right that standard is not
even completely ratified yet.
I use an Empire 1400s on an Adaptec 1542B and it works fine.  There should
be no problem with SCSI2 interfacing.

What I know about older Atari's (I have an ST with SCSI adapter) is that
it does not generate parity on the SCSI bus.  That cause problems for me
with a 250M Hitachi drive I interfaced at that time, and for which the
parity jumper was wrongly documented in the datasheet.

You may want to disable parity on the Quantum drive.

Rob
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