Date   : Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:39:18 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

In article <E1BiANX-0003Ys-00@...>, Mark Usher
<mu.list@...> writes

>The program I posted a couple of days ago started off life by going step by
>step through Superform. I got annoyed at it not interrogating the drive and
>so I wrote something new. I have happily used it to format drives etc. both
>low level creating the 256 byte sectors and the high level format - creating
>the fs map etc.

Thanks - will go back in the thread and snarf it.

>The problem was that I could never get a SCSI drive to work correctly
>directly on the SASI host adapter.

Maybe parity problems as you surmised earlier?  Parity can be disabled
via a jumper on some drives.

> An ST506 drive worked fine via the
>Adaptec interface.

you'd rather expect it to, wouldn't you? :)

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