Date   : Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:22:08 +0200
From   : "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

> >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.

Tried that. It could have been down to the ATN line not being implemented,
it worked up to a point, sometimes it would happily read and write a few
times (at least it didn't report any errors) and then BAD FS map.

> > An ST506 drive worked fine via the
> >Adaptec interface.
> you'd rather expect it to, wouldn't you? :)

Hope would better summise my feelings from the time :-)

-Mark