Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!matrox!uvm-gen!kira!news From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: hard drives Message-ID: <1990Dec27.173803.29845@uvm.edu> Date: 27 Dec 90 17:38:03 GMT References: Sender: news@uvm.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Vermont, Department of Computer Science Lines: 42 Raymond-Protection: enabled I wrote: >>>I'm interested, (I'd like to run my 296N with 1-1 interleave 8-) Bob Luneski replies: >> I bought one when they first came on the market and formatted it >>at 1-1 and was shocked to find that my 28 ms disk was sooooo slooooooooow. now John Henders writes: > I think there was some discussion here last year about this, and it was found > that the latest series of Rom for the 296N had been deliberately slowed down >by Seagate so that the drives would work with Macintoshes. I guess Apple > ordered a lot of them and the Mac couldn't keep up to the original transfer > speed. Someone tryed to get the old Roms from Seagate, but no luck. > [.sigs omitted]... > John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca > Vancouver,B.C. or jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca > or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders Someone posted here saying that he runs a 296N at 1 to 1 interleave with a BMS host adaptor and gave a short explanation of why there's a problem. I called ICD to see what their story was, but got an irritat{ed _and_ ing} guy who said there's no problem, sometimes it works with 2XXNs and sometimes it (1 to 1 formatting) doesn't. He hardly let me get a word in edgewise and wouldn't even *consider* investigating, let alone making the ICD adaptor work with these drives that barely meet the SCSI specs. Such a pity, the ST end of ICD HAs is superb, long cable with optional write verification (that I use) and a great cacheing driver. We'll get an update soon from Vance Chin, as I am getting BMS' Host Adaptor info sent to me. Bob Pegram pegram@griffin.uvm.edu or ...!uvm-gen!pegram