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From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Future Domain Address?
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Date: 6 Dec 90 14:26:55 GMT
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>>Steve "Skillman" Hillman asked:
>>Does anyone know if Future Domain is on the Net? I'd like to send them a
>>letter. I just purchased a FD TMC-885 and received a dismal amount of
>>documntation and software with it.

>Bob Angelini replied:
>... The software and docs that FD supplies
>with their board is quite a hefty package all bound in a three ring binder.

I believe that you can buy the board for lots of money with software and
lots of docs, or for relatively little money, you get the board bare.
The part number for the whole mess is tmc-885dnk, and the bare board is
just tmc-885.  I bought mine (bare) from an authorized Future Domian
distributor.  I, too, was disappointed.

I was also disappointed that I couldn't run 4 floppies using stanard
PC-DOS drivers.  I might replace the tmc-885 with an Adaptec aha-1522.

It was easy to use, though.  I just cabled up a Fujitsu SCSI hard drive,
and used standard PC-DOS commands to partition and format it.  (Or, I've
completely forgotten that I had to use magic to get it going...)
-- 
steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett


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