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From: tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: ST02 - doesn't work with ProDrive Quantum S80 - Why ?
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Message-ID: <1991Jan18.003222.15824@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 00:32:22 GMT
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Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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In article <4f429ab7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> angelini@apollo.HP.COM (Bob Angelini) writes:
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>The Seagate ST01 and ST02 SCSI controllers will only work with
>Seagate SCSI drives.


  I can't let misinformation go by.  The ST0X will work with any SCSI
  drives.  The ROM BIOS on the board is for DOS to make it look like
  an ST506 controller.  Seagate drives (that is supposedly "specially"
  prepared for the ST0X ctrlrs), simply comes pre-formatted for DOS and
  has partitioning software on them.

  That is about the only difference between "those" drives and SCSI
  drives from other manufacturers.

  I have personally used (am using) several different non-Seagate SCSI
  drive with an ST02.

-- Tin

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