Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!drew From: drew@geaclib.UUCP (Drew Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Perstor PS180-16F HD Controller Problem Message-ID: <3656@geaclib.UUCP> Date: 8 Feb 89 03:46:04 GMT Article-I.D.: geaclib.3656 References: <638@cimcor.mn.org> <5060047@hpccc.HP.COM> Reply-To: drew@lethe.UUCP (Drew Sullivan) Organization: Systems Software Lines: 21 In article <5060047@hpccc.HP.COM> samc@hpccc.HP.COM (Samuel Chau) writes: >I too received BIOS 3.01 from Ted earlier this week. The "head banging" >problem I experienced at boot time was gone, but was replaced by double >slow seeks (drives making long "errrrrrrrrrr" sounds) just before the system >boots up. Ted sent me two chips, a BIOS EPROM and a microcontroller with >updated microcode. I'm pretty sure we have the same chips now, but I just >want to verify this. Be forwarned, if you are running xenix or novel with this controller you also have to have a set of wire-wrap changes to the board. There are some physical timing problems are not fixed by just the roms. I have the new wire-wrapped board running a maxtor(70Mb) and a miniscribe(80Mb) and am pleased to have 126 and 135Mb available (after formating) Lastly support was excellent, they returned my calls, shipped me new roms and latter a new board, and didn't charge me a cent. -- -- Drew Sullivan +1 416 225-1592 Toronto, Ontario, Canada