Re: HELP: IDE Harddisk + RISCOS3.1 = error?

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From: Pete Goodwin
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:37

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In article <ARM200-921109222155-341836EE*@MHS>, /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes...

>I'm not aware of an actual specific scenario which can cause this, but a
>number of other people are having trouble with hard drives and RISC OS 3 eg.
>Pete Goodwin and his Morley SCSI card.

Morley tell me the drive is timing out after a seek operation, and the Arc is
waiting for the drive to respond, and hence it hangs.

Morley also tell me RO3.1 is measurably slower on accessing the SCSI drive
(since they measured it).

The problem only seems to occur on RZ drives - everyone else's drive works fine
- so Morley say. I've not heard anyone else complain about Morley's SCSI
controller.

Owen, the modules you sent are showing the same symptoms - the system hangs. It
happens very rarely, but makes it unreliable.

Ho hum.

Pete Goodwin
goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com

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