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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: ST02 - doesn't work with ProDrive Quantum S80 - Why ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.142347.8412@bigsur.uucp>
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Reply-To: mussar@bnr.ca (G. Mussar)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <440@usun01.UUCP> <4f429ab7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1991Jan18.003222.15824@smsc.sony.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 14:23:47 GMT


In article <1991Jan18.003222.15824@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le) writes:
>In article <4f429ab7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> angelini@apollo.HP.COM (Bob Angelini) writes:
>>
>>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.  

Sigh, I guess I can't let misinformation go by either. You are both right and both
wrong.

The early version of the ST01 BIOS explicitly checked for Seagate drives and refused
to run on any others. Seagate has since upgraded the ROM BIOS and now the ST0x controllers
run with other vendors disks. Be aware that a number of disks do not work on ST0x
controllers. You should verify (by acutally trying) before purchase.
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