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Article #34101Re: HARD DISK: HELP OFFERED AND WANTED
From: Chris Rhodin
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 15:40
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 15:40
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The problem that you are having might be caused by the Xebec 1410
controller. The 1410 only handles two drives with the same parameters, i.e.
heads, cylinders, seek rate, and etc.. This is not the case with the Adaptec
ACB-4000 controller which will handle two different hard drives. Also I might
add the Adaptec is faster with its 1:1 interleave than the Xebec's 1:3.
The Atari host adapter could also be your problem. Atari host
adapters do not pass back SCSI/SASI status(error) codes properly. This causes
hard disk boot software to install "phantom" drives on the system. To get
around this problem ICD's software only installs one hard drive on Atari host
adpaters. I hope this helps you and other people on the net.
We have received numerous Usenet letters to us in the last months, but
do to one thing or another I seem to get most of my mail sent back. If you
need some information from us please send us a postcard. Do to our move
(yeah!!) we have a P.O. box for correspondence.
Vance Chin Berkeley Microsystems
P.O. Box 20119
Oakland, CA 94620
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