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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SeaGate 296n information...
Message-ID: <4554@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 23:45:09 GMT
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>In article <4480@blake.acs.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>>ROM 8 Does NOT format 1:1 successfully... sure it will run.. if 
>>a 57K/sec DTR is satisfactory for you !
>>
>>The older ROM 7 drives (hard to find these days) will format 1:1
>>and give you about 550 K/sec.
>
>Just to confuse the issue further, I have a ROM 8 ST296N in my system
>(Amiga 2000,HardFrame) formatted 1:1, and it works reasonably well
>(>600K/second transfer rate).  Perhaps the controller makes a difference.
>
>Ed Hanway
>jeh@elmgate.UUCP

I think Vance from BMS said he has a 296N working perfectly fine
with the BMS controller.  When i originally bought the 296N from
my dealer, we tried both ICD and Supra... neither worked.. we somewhat
concluded that it probably was in the ROM.  Then we contacted Seagate,
and they told us they had problems getting it to run 1:1 on a 386 box.
But it was really hard to get a straight answer. 
A week or so later, my dealer talked with Seagate again and was told
there was a bug in the ROM 8 and that unfortunately the only solution
was to do a revision.  Hence ROM 12 ?

Obviously, the 296N CAN work 1:1 with the right controller.  

Learn something new everyday!

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu