Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxtor XT-3280S/2090
Message-ID: <18829@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 May 89 08:53:27 GMT
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What Dale says is true; I was with him that afternoon trying to get his
Maxtors up using the A2090 and some other cards; no dice.

I have both XT-3280 and XT-3380 drives working fine using the Supra; in fact,
I use one XT-3380 on an Amiga at the office to "mirror" the disks on one of
my Vaxen.

If you want a real thrill, get a Maxtor XT-8760; it, too, works fine with
the Supra on the Amiga, and it's a real gas to watch an MS-DOS fanatic poop
his pants when he sees over 1GB *FREE* after moving some 200MB onto the
system! :-)

In light of all the problems that people perenially post to this newsgroup
concerning problems with two or three SPECIFIC HD-cards/software (such as:
works with ST-277N but not with 296N, etc etc), I think it fair to say that
EVERYTHING I've attached to the Supra has worked fine.  This includes disks
and tapes (haven't tried modems, printers or scanners yet, but I anticipate
no difficulty).  And this is on a (properly-wired (by me)) SCSI bus that's
almost 20 feet long.

Just a rundown (from memory) of the things I've personally verified as
working with the Supra on the Amiga:

Maxtor XT-21xx drives with Adaptec 4000a translators
Maxtor XT-3xxx drives (embedded SCSI)
any Seagate ST-506 drive with either Adaptec 4000a or 4070 translator
any LaPine, Kyocera, etc etc
Quantum 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 embedded SCSI drives
any Conner drive
Maxtor LT-170 (or something) 3-1/2" embedded SCSI
any Miniscribe ST-506 with Adaptec 4000a or 4070
Syquest removeable media HDs 
Fujitsu tape drives

etc.

From the descriptions in people's postings, it appears some 3rd party HD
vendors are producing "proprietary" subsystems that make life as difficult
as it is for those who use Mac systems (re: the SCSI bus); I have not found
such problems with the Supra stuff on the Amiga.

Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]