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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardrives and the A3000
Message-ID: <20246@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 04:43:12 GMT
References: <27494@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar18.204049.9791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <27505@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <91078.112040GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <1991Mar19.192551.4397@starnet.uucp>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar19.192551.4397@starnet.uucp> sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem) writes:
> 
> I plug CDC SCSI drive to my A3000, strait from a MAC.
> Both work fine, only setpu was plug the cable and click 2 or 3 time
> to creat partition...
> I get good benchmark with both, no boot up problems or any other
> kind of problems....

> I get the problem describe by other on my A2000, with a not full
> implemented system reset.(but nothing to do with CBM)

	Yes, often drives set up for macs (as many low-end scsi drives are)
have the reset pin disabled, or the cabling/wiring doesn't connect it (Macs
apparently don't deal with reset issues well).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is in anything other than my personal opinion.
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(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)