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From: ke4zv@kd4nc.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: AHA1542 and ST296N
Message-ID: <4140@kd4nc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 90 15:50:13 GMT
References: <8121@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: ke4zv@kd4nc.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
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In article <8121@cognos.UUCP> dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) writes:
>I heard a lot of good things about the Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller.
>And the Seagate ST296N 85Mb drive is getting very common and fairly cheap.
>Are these two a good match?  Some sales-people alluded to some unspecified
>problems with this.  Anything to this or is a bogus rumour?

I have been running this combo for a while now with no problems. One
thing tho, get a copy of Roy Neese's utilities. You need to turn the
error correction off in the drive while you do the low level format and
verify or some soft errors will come back to haunt you. Also the default
error handling in the drive is not optimum; you will want to change that
when you are ready to run. I also have a Micropolis 1578 (330Meg) on the
same controller, it works great straight out of the box.

Gary Coffman