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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL controler for Maxtor xt-1140
Message-ID: <25d0370d-21d3.4comp.ibmpc-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 15:00:11 GMT
References: <1576@mipos3.intel.com> <458@sixhub.UUCP>
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>Response 3 of 3 (8659) by davidsen at sixhub.UUCP on Wed 07 Feb 90 00:22
>[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]
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>  I covered this in some detail in another posting, but just to clarify,
>there seems to be a lockup problem when running Xenix or UNIX on the WD
>with two drives. I'm told there is a patch for ix/386, and that it
>doesn't happen on a single drive system. The WD is about 3:1 faster than
>the Adaptek on Xenix.

This is true, but it only happens on SOME WD1006 boards.  Others work just
fine.  The ones which blow chunks are >defective<; we have many of them
which don't exhibit the problem, and we have sold a ton of the things.

A few have had trouble, yes.  Those we cheerfully replace, and send back to
the distributor!

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