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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Oktagon SCSI Controller
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 11:50:48 GMT
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- In article <1409.6604T558T1126@datashopper.dk>, fribert@datashopper.dkS
- says...
- >
- >
- >As far as I can tell, Jean-Luc Manchon wrote to Alle about 'Oktagon SCSI
- Controller', my reply would then be...
- >
- > FVH>> The longer I use my Oktagon 2008, the more I feel that while fast, it
- > FVH>> is buggy and unstable. I have checked cables, swapped drive, checked
- > FVH>> termination and still have problems. Mostly with tape drives. The
- > FVH>> drives work fine on my PC. Well at least the Archive does.
- >>I have an Oktagon 2008 and I have had many problems with it, until I throw
- >>away the 6.3 Eprom and buy a 6.8.
- >>Now it works fine with 2 Hard drives, a Zip, a Apple CD300e+. All this
- stuff
- >>is available under ShapeShifter too.
- >
- >There's a new ROM available on AmiNet, version 6.10, but it either demands
- you have an EPROM burner, or doesn't use the autoboot.
-
- I got the ROM image and checked if I can "burn one". I have to get the
- 27C512-15 EPROM. I'm going to try and get one today. What's this about
- autoboot? Are you saying the old ROM allowed autoboot and the new one
- doesn't?
-
- Who is updating these ROMs if the Oktagon is an orphan? I'm not complaining,
- I'd just like to know.
-
- >There's also some more features in configuring the controller, as the
- configure controller of HDInstTools is made seperately now. This means you
- can throw
-
- ..throw what?
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-
-