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Date: 8 Nov 90 20:49:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu's message of 8 Nov 90 05:31:01 GMT

>There have been several postings reporting problems with SCSI drives.
>I just want to point out that I use the Seagate SCSI controller ($59 from JDR)
>that works fine with windows (only tested in Std. Mode).  It has many
>limitations, i.e. you can only have one other MFM drive in the system, etc. 
>Apparently it makes the SCSI interface mimic an MFM controller.  But
>it does work fine on my DOS formatted 48 meg seagate drive, and
>doesn't need any drivers.  Buying a slow disk controller (it's only 8
>bits) is not a very useful solution to solving hard disk problems, but
>I thought I should mention it.

When I first started using Windows 3, I had my SCSI drive running off
a Seagate ST02 adapter, and it crashed my system every 5-10 minutes.
This got to be very annoying, so I upgraded to an Adaptec 1542A.  That
fixed my problem, but now I can't run QEMM with Win3 enhanced mode.
Perhaps someone at Quarterdeck or Adaptec will fix this soon...

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Jason Merrill					jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu