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From: kamran@dialogic.com (Kamran Vaziri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AdIDE w/Western Digital 93044-A
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.173402.13139@dialogic.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 17:34:02 GMT
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Hello people.

I was wondering if anyone out there is using the new AdIDE from ICD with a 
Western Digital 93044-A 40meg drive.  This is the combination I have right now
for my A500 but I can't get the damn thing to work!!!  I called Briwall (where
I purchased it) and their tech support didn't know enough about the product to
help me.  Then I called ICD.  All their techs but one are on vacation (real
good scheduling) and he was not real polite in fact he had a real attitude
problem.  Anyway, when I boot from the floppy supplied with the controller and
run the format program a window pops up which is supposed to contain a list of
drives recognized by the controller.  I get nothing.  I checked all connections
and can't find anything wrong.  The drive itself is a 3.5" drive with 977     
cylinders, 5 heads and 17 sectors.  It's got the 40 pin IDE connector, the 
power connector and a 6 pin connector right next to the 40 pin.  I don't know
what the 6 pin's for (could this be for jumpers maybe or drive ID??).  I'm
not too familiar with IDE's at all.  I would really appreciate ANY insight
into this problem and maybe even some recommendations on drives that DO work
with this controller.

Thanx much!!

KAMRAN@DIALOGIC.COM