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Re: sider card and scsi hard drives.
- Subject: Re: sider card and scsi hard drives.
- From: Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:47:24 -0700
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Bart wrote:
>
> Well actually Wayne.... I happen to know of two cases where it has worked.
> but in both cases the card would ONLY work with 1 specific drive and only that
> drive. In either case it took a special re-write of the firmware. Would that
> I had that firmware; I have 2 Sider cards and no drive alas. I got 1 SCSI to
> be recognized (a 20 meg sidways mounted thing with no name on the case and no
> number dial or switch for the ID set). it even formated (thanks btw for the
> software ;). and on a GS under 6.0.1 I got the drive up on the desktop and
> everything BUT I could never write to it AND read back the data. Write yes,
> it said file was there yes, read: System crash. consistently. argh! Ah
> well...
> --
That's good to hear. I don't believe anyone's ever reported having any kind of
luck at all here before. Which hard drive was inside the generic case?
Which firmware revision do you have on tour cards?
Wayne