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From: hulsebos@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (rob hulsebos)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Segate & Motorola drives ******
Message-ID: <941@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 13 Feb 91 12:17:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.123020.20@hamavnet>
Reply-To: hulsebos@ehviea.UUCP (rob hulsebos)
Organization: Philips I&E Eindhoven
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In article <1991Feb7.123020.20@hamavnet> young@hamavnet writes:
>Does Motorola change or have changed the Seagate drives that they install into
>their systems.  It seems that the word is that they do and the drives will give
>flaky behavior if running Unix.
As a matter of coincidence, we have a similar problem with Teac floppydrives
and the answer came in today. 

It appears that there are several versions of firmware on the Teacs, the
most up-to-date being ROM's level "L". But Teac drives as delivered by
Motorola have level "F" or "G". Probably the SCSI-drivers are not upwards
compatible, so you can not use the latest firmware revisions which you
normally get when you just order a drive. Motorola is just making sure that
the hardware they deliver works with their SCSI-drivers.

Sometimes, "updates" aren't !!!