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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The latest in the Microbotics-Maxtor  Saga
Message-ID: <1713@agora.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 89 08:08:48 GMT
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From article <8911220047.AA14002@jade.berkeley.edu:, by CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone):
: 
:      Well lets see....
: 
: you can all recall that I've posted several messages detailing
: difficulties with getting a Maxtor LXT-100S to work with the
: Microbotics HardFrame controller.
: 
: [List of what he's done so far, and what still isn't working...]
: 
: If you can come up with some ideas i'd appreciate it....

	I don't know if this will help you much... But the newest software
from Supra has support for the LXT-100S (as well as the 3xxx series) built
in. I've heard that Microbotics does a good job of supporting the rigid disk
block standard, and I know Supra has done the same thing. You should be able
to format the drive with any of the Supra controllers, then just hook it up
to your microbotics. The only things that I know of that would be different
between the two are the DevInit code (device driver) and possibly the way
they store the filesystem...
	BTW, I've been using Maxtors with my two Supra systems for several
months and other than difficulties (since fixed by Supra for me...) in doing
an autoboot from the initial powerup, it's worked flawlessly. The autoboot
troubles were caused by the Maxtor needing to be accessed before it would
send out an `I'm ready' signal. A warm boot after the initial failure would
allow the Maxtor to be configured.

: JpC
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: 
: Heisenberg might have been here...
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