Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!

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From: Geoff Riley
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 19:45

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In article <1992Oct3.214943.2529@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
>Acorn sent a memo to dealers a while ago stating exactly which drives are
>compatible with the A5000 (basically just Conner drives).  Lots of other
>drives WILL work, but you have to fiddle.  This isn't really Acorn's fault - 
>IDE has a very poor specification (IMHO) and is open to interpretation.

You call that a specification???  I mean, the manufacturers cannot even agree
on a basic set of commands with any reliability...  When I was doing my IDE
interface, I based the code around specs I got for a Kyocera (sp?) drive...
worked fine until I tried it on a Connor..!  I got it working on both drives,
then I got a Quantum... Pah!  Got it working on the Quantum, then Hugo got a
100MB quantum...  I never managed to get that working at all :-(

Now I'm having hassles with serial ports :-(
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From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
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Subject: Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!
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