Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!olson From: olson@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Toad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Quetsions about the 3000... Message-ID: <9793@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 10 Oct 90 19:24:11 GMT References: <90276.132159IO91461@MAINE.BITNET> <14916@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1791@shodha.enet.dec.com> <15007@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 36 In article <15007@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article <1791@shodha.enet.dec.com> ridder@elvira.UUCP (Hans Ridder) writes: > >>So, does this mean that the 2091 (and 3000) using the new driver will or >>won't support reselection? From your description, it sorta sounds like >>the problem was fixed by just not doing reselection in the driver.... > >The problem was circumvented by not doing reselection, programmable via ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ doesn't work to well on a tape drive. :-) >mountlist or RDB parameters. That's not a fix. A new device driver with >the now-working Western Digital high level SCSI commands should be a fix, >not a work around, to this problem. > But where the HELL do we get this? I have spoken to my local dealer, and even called California to see if I could get the update, and nobody knows or has even heard about it. It is rather frustrating to be backing up a 140 meg partition with 5 files to go and then do a list and have the damn computer lock up. Not to mention the location zero bug that causes problems with several programs. >> Hans-Gabriel Ridder Digital Equipment Corporation >-- >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" -- olson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | "When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant olson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu | I could hardly stand to be around him. When I CS student, Adventurer | was twenty-one, I was amazed at how much the Paraphrased from House II | old man had learned in seven years." - M. Twain