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From: Joe_Luzzi.FULLERTON_CC@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU (Joe Luzzi)
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Subject: Re- DIY hard disk drive
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Date: 11 Mar 91 22:34:29 GMT
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                                                               Time: 10:24 AM
                                                               Date: 12/21/90
Subject:  Re: DIY hard disk drive


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Does anyone know if Quantum drives work on the Apple DMA-SCSI card?  I've tried
two Quantum drives from two different manuafacturers (MacLand Quantum 170 and a
Protege 210 from MacAvenue) and both drives would act very strange.
I could see the drive, but I'd always get a format failure from Advanced Disk
utilities.  Sometimes I could format the drive, partition it, and it would seem
ok.  Then the drive would become unreadable.  The drives would not appear to
prodos 8 unless I removed the external termination.  But the drives still acted
funny.  The only explanation I can think of is that the Quantum drives don't
supply terminatin power to the bus.  My Rodime 140 Plus works fine.

Anyway, I'll probably try a Connor based drive next.  Anyone using a Quantum
and a Apple DMA-SCSI card?

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Joe M. Luzzi

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