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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Ultrastor 12F vs. Adaptec 2322D--which is better?
Message-ID: <3290@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 91 01:37:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb17.041725.13430@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1991Feb19.183953.1563@saturn.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb19.183953.1563@saturn.uucp> martin@saturn.UUCP (Martin J. Schedlbauer) writes:

| P.S. I tried 4 different ESDI controllers: WD...V/SE2, UltraStore, Adaptec,
| and CompuAdd HardCache - the only one that worked reliably under ESIX was
| the UltraStore 12F - however all performed well under DOS 4.01 using large
| (> 32MB) partitions.

  Did you have (a) a small disk and (b) and old CompuAdd? Since the last
rev of the CompuAdd ROMS we have ben having zero problems with them,
even in very fast machines. The Ultrastor wanted to LL format all drive
we tried over about 500MB as 54 sectors per track, and wouldn't let us
change that parameter. It seems to have read it, wrong, off the drive.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me