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From: mikeu@bilver.UUCP (Mike Ungerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Compacting disk controllers
Message-ID: <729@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 90 04:47:32 GMT
References: <900503000313.634561@SYSTEM-M.PHX.BULL.COM>
Reply-To: mikeu@bilver.UUCP (Mike Ungerman)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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I have recently installed a Perstor 16 bit hard/floppy controller in
a 286 AT clone.  All seemed to go well until I hooked up my Archive floppy
tape unit, which interfaces through a small controller card to the Perstor.

I immediately wiped out my Vfeature master disk as I was about to install
that disk management software.  All further attempts to write or format to
drive a: resulted in a disk that would not read or boot.

Discussions ensued with Perstor's tech support and Archive's tech support,
the result of which were that Archive does not support the Perstor and
Perstor admits there "may" be some problems using an intermediate interface
card between their floppy port and the drives themselves.

So far no solution and lots of cable swaps to get the tape data back on the
restructured hard drive.  Archive's recommendation was to junk my floppy
tape backup unit and get a dedicated 60meg streamer with its own controller card