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From: buggs@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adaptec + Seagate hard drive question
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Date: 28 Feb 90 06:41:07 GMT
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>        I have an ICD host adaptor with an Adaptec 4070 controller and
>a Seagate 277R-1 (?) 28ms 65meg RLL hard drive.  My problem is I keep
>getting a <SENSE $11> code. No bad sectors, no data errors, just the 
>sense $11. 

You NEED an OMTI 3527a controller! I too was experiancing the same problem.
Even zeroing the partitons and then eventually reformatting! I really 
don't know the differences, but I here the Adaptec does do 'low level'
SCSI, but goes through DOS?????? I dunno, all I know, it works GREAT, now!

ED June