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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Series II / Syquest / Quantum P80S HD Wierdness
Message-ID: <08660.AA08660@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 24 Jun 91 00:51:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.023420.9043@swbatl.sbc.com> <rkushner.1867@sycom.UUCP>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <rkushner.1867@sycom.UUCP>, rkushner@sycom.UUCP
(Ronald Kushner) writes:

> ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) writes:
>
>> (The HD activity led on the GVP is off during most of
>> this).

Then it's obviously the drive's firmware. The host adapter
cannot independantly control the LED.

> When you connected 2 or more drives to my old Series II (I
> have an A3000 now, got sick of <<Insert favorate profanity
> here>> with HD controllers, sold everything) it would send
> the heads out of range<CRUNCH! POP! BANG!>.
>
> Ralph said on the net that the "controller" sending the
> drives out of range is nonesence and impossiable, but I
> have talked to others with the same damn problems

I said that the _host_adapter_ cannot send the heads out of
range. The Seagate's _controller_, of course, _could_ do so
(and maybe it even does).

> Seems GVP has something, somewhere, going on when you add
> more than one drive, and they don't want to admit it

If you have two or more targets connected, the driver will
use disconnect/reconnect. This is documented on page 32 of
the manual.

Ralph