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- From: J_Plewka@Amtrash.comlink.de (Joern Plewka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help: New A4000T Hard drive Problem
- Date: 21 Mar 96 16:59:41 +0100
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- cpuken@indy.net (Ken Armour) -> "Help: New A4000T Hard drive Problem"
- (15.03.1996)
- > We just received one of the new A4000 towers for a customer and we are
- > in the process of transferring the hard drives (210mb IDE & 105mb IDE
- > Syquest) over to the new tower.
- >
- > We immediatedly discovered that the drive that comes with the unit is
- > SCSI. We thought that the new 4000T supported both IDE and SCSI.
- > After trying about 5 different IDE drives we finally found one of the
- > 5 that appears to work. Is the IDE on these beast that particular
- > that it will only support certain brands or models of IDE drives??
- >
- > Are we missing something.
-
- IDE isn`t defined very good...and many drives are full of firmwarebugs.
- They don`t appear on PoC. If you`ve got trouble discrease the Max. Transfer
- in Toolbox to 0xffff...and go as slow as on PoC;-((
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- Avoid IDE if possible!
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