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From: rickf@pnet02.gryphon.com (Rick Flower)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Maxtor drives (merged threads)
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Date: 19 Nov 89 06:40:25 GMT
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greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel) writes:

>Scott Thompson (sft@cbnewsc.ATT.COM) writes:
>>I have my large [1224-cylinder] Maxtor drive connected to a Commodore
>>2090 controller.  ... [While preping] my amiga GURU'd and rebooted...
>>Now the machine hangs at the BindDrivers call ... therefore I cannot Mount
>>any partition to re-prep the drive.
>
>Jonathan Crone, are you there?  Does this sound familiar?  This seems to be
>\exactly/ the problem we are having -- and now that I think back on it, my
>Amiga did crash while I was preping the Maxtor, so this may be just what
>caused the problem.  Did your Amiga crash/reboot while you were preping your
>disk drive?
>
>So, given this additional facet, does anybody have any notions as to how to
>cure it?  I'd really like to be able to use the space on that disk....


Well, I was the original person that posted about my "Maxtor" problem, and I
must say that MY problem was due to a stupid thing I did.. Mainly using the
incorrect sectors/track value.. I used 32 instead of 24 sectors/track.  Once I
got the correct value of 24, things have been working great!  I'm using a
Maxtor XT3280 drive (220 Meg Formatted) if anyone is interested.. I've got it
working great and it has been working for over a week now!  It DOES however
come up with "NOT-A-DOS-DISK" the very first time it boots however.. I spin up
the drive (it's in an external case) and then turn on the A2000.  I end up
having to re-boot the system after it gets going a bit for it to work
correctly...

Ooops.. I almost forgot why I wrote this message... I was talking with Kelly
Keith of Creative Computers (Lawndale) [ Kelly is the Service Manager ] and he
mentioned that the Maxtors sometimes have "wierd" SCSI commands and don't work
as well as they could or as well as CDC or other equivalent drives.. Just
thought that I would throw in that tid-bit.. 

I'll assume that if you were to disconnect your Maxtor drive from the system,
that the BindDrivers would run correctly enabling a complete boot?? You could
possibly "and I do mean possibly" connect the drive to the SCSI bus after it
has powered up, but I WOULDN'T -- AND I EMPHASIZE THAT -- WOULDN'T try that
unless EVERYTHING else failed..  It is a strange problem though.  

P.S. I'm also using an old 2090 controller..

>--
>J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru         greg@noel.cts.com  or  greg@noel.uucp

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