Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2
From: rps2@amoeba2.UUCP (Rick Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Microbotics and Maxtor
Message-ID: <0069.AA0069@amoeba2>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:39:12 GMT
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In message <8911180603.AA17118@jade.berkeley.edu>,
                      CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
>That ain't the problem.... the damn thing gurus right on the
>binddrivers.... can't even get close to formatting it
>
>nearest thing i can get is from Maxtor is that their drive takes a long
>time to return a Ready from the drive after the Reset is asserted
>by the hardframe... and the Hard frame driver isn't used to
>having to wait for the drive to respond to the reset... so it Gurus...

Yes, some Maxtors have problems with HardFrame. You've nailed the problem.

There is stuff in the mill re: handling this kind of bug (yes, it's a
Maxtor bug).

>I have a description into Microbotics of the difficulty,
>and i'm hoping to hear from Joanne Dow with a fix...
>(Joanne are you out there????)
>
>IE: come ON now.... Maxtors aren't exactly a trivial brand of drive!!!!
>JpC

Yes, Maxtor isn't exactly a trivial brand. The most common problem with
them is that the older beasts had some nasty stuff in their ROMs which
doesn't arbitrate the SCSI bus properly. Newer drives don't exhibit
_those_ problems, but the RESET bug still exists. It'd be nice if
Maxtor would fix their SCSI stuff. (No, this isn't a flame, but I'm
getting fairly tired of everyone blaming MicroBotics for other companies'
problems. Remember the flap about HardFrame and rev. 6 motherboards?)

I just find it facinating that HardFrame works just hunky with _fixed_
rev. 6.x motherboards and drives which conform to true SCSI. So let's
knock off the MicroBotics bashing, ok?

(Yes, I do some consulting for MicroBotics).

    ::EOF:: End Of Flame


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