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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adaptec + Seagate hard drive question
Summary: Actually, I found out it doesn't make any difference.
Message-ID: <1184@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 90 04:17:25 GMT
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In article <27394@cup.portal.com>, buggs@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr) writes:
> 
> 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

	Actually, I found it doesn't make a shred of difference.  The sense
code $11 is just because there's a bad sector on the *track*.  True, it's
ugly, but it doesn't cause any problems.
	Besides, I couldn't find an OMTI controller.  At least not for $120,
which is what I got the Adaptec for.  True, SCSI mapping would be nice,
but then again, that'd make me lose a TRACK for every bad sector (wasteful
IMHO).  Besides, can you imagine how much time backing up and restoring a
65 meg hard drive would take??? (please, don't bug me about backups.  Most
of the files on the hard drive aren't going to change; so I do file backups
rather than image backups).

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