Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Quantum ProDrive from Abel
Message-ID: <4975@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 21 Jan 90 17:44:41 GMT
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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Well, I too bought a Quantum 105 MB 3.5" SCSI ProDrive from Abel for $721.

It arrived the next day.

I had forgotten how many problems others had had with Abel.

Anyway, the drive came in an anti-static package, inside one of this thick
paper bags, inside a box full of styrofoam peanuts -- with no documentation
of any kind and no cable.  This significatly adds to the complexity of the
problem of getting one working.

I scooped up all the necessary information, fortunately, but the prep command
would just hang (A2090 controller).  Finally I discovered that the drive was
strapped to be SCSI drive 6.  After strapping it for drive 0 instead, it
worked.

I just thought I'd post this so others would not think this was a totally easy
thing to do -- it wasn't, and it might be worth some extra $$ to a store or
something to get the thing and get it installed and working.

There are three other jumpers on the drive, and if anyone knows what they do,
please let me know.

For anyone else who might get one, I have some mountlist entries for you.
As I understand it, SCSI doesn't use head, track and sector in requests but
rather maps the sectors to an integer sector number from 0 to N.  Nonetheless,
you need something for your mountlist.

I am using:
	Cylinders 1019
	Blocks/Track 33
	Heads 6
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