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From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3000 autobooting a 1096N
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.155553.17937@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 Aug 90 15:55:53 GMT
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Reply-To: fsset@bach.UUCP (Scott E. Townsend)
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In article <760.26C795C2@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Randy.Coghill@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Randy Coghill) writes:
>Dave what I would like is to find out if Commodore is going to fix the
>problem (as far as I know there scsi routines are the only ones that
>have this timing problem).  While they do put these nice and fairly
>expensive Quantums drives in the systems it is almost irrisponsible
>(sp) for them to ignore the fact that some users would go with
>different brands to suit there needs (for the same price as a Quantum
>40 I got the Seagate 1096N which gives me double the storage capacity).
>
>The point is that Commodore seems to ignore most things and so
>entirely as they please and the customer is not supposed to say
>anything and live with it....Well I want a working product with the
>hardware I have in my system.
>
>Randy
>
>
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>Standard Disclaimers Apply...


Seems to me that Commodore has to support their own products, but not
necessarily every possible thing you might connect to them.  (This is not
intended as a flame against Randy)  The fact that some third-party drives
may not work with Commodore's supplied controller/driver combination is the
responsibility of the person who sold you the set-up.  They shouldn't sell
something that doesn't work.  If the drives are that much of a better deal, 
they should either be sold with a driver that could use Commodore's 
hardware or as a complete combination.

Now I'm not unsympathetic to the problem.  I have some ancient Iomega
Alpha-10 drives that don't even support the "common" command set.  If 
someone sold me a system with these drives, they had better supply a driver
(hardware probably isn't required)  Since I bought these drives "raw"
a LONG time ago, it's my problem to get them to work.  I would hope
Commodore would supply some means of talking 'raw" SCSI so I can develop
an Iomega-specific driver, and thankfully they do -- SCSIDirect.

Just another crazy opinion...

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