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Article #223Re: RLL controllers in Zenith systems
From: RAMontante
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 02:08
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 02:08
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My z-158 is running one of the earliest Adaptec RLL controllers quite happily. This controller, and probably others, are not recognized properly by the monitor ROM, so that no matter how I reboot --- straight reboot or ROM-monitor command --- the machine always tries to go the floppy drive before using the hard disk. Since I never store floppies in the floppy drive, this merely slows down the boot by a second or three (out of 60 or so to get all the EMS, TSR, and other goodies loaded up). The z-159 ROM is surely newer than mine, and may do a better job of identifying non-Zenith controllers, but it really isn't a problem anyway. I would expect an RLL controller to work fine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: RLL controllers in Zenith systems Message-ID: <49919@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 6 Jul 90 02:08:21 GMT References: <90186.174616RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 11