neese@adaptex.UUCP (04/06/90)
>/* ---------- "Re: SCSI Hard/Floppy AT bus Control" ---------- */ > >The WD 7000 FASST SCSI controller stores data on the scsi disk in a >non-standard format. IE, only WD7000 controllers will be able to read >the data. The Adaptek controller/driver stores the data on the disk in >standard dos format. I don't know what the Future Domain controller >does. Uhmmm, interesting. I wasn't aware of this. I know that the WD7000 uses a different translation mode than the 154xA, but does it really store data in a non-standard way? Roy Neese Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer UUCP @ {texbell,attctc}!cpe!adaptex!neese merch!adaptex!neese uunet!swbatl!texbell!merch!adaptex!neese
feustel@well.sf.ca.us (David Alan Feustel) (04/11/90)
NCR chose the WD 7000 FAST controller as there AT bus SCSI adapter.
What I heard from one of the engineers was that CD used a partitioning
scheme that permitted a file to spill over from one partition to the
next transparently. In any event, I thought a SCSI drive I received
had no data on it when I was unable to get anything from it using an
Adaptec 1542 controller. I had to switch to a WD 7000 and use the OS/2
driver to retrieve the data (the WD dos driver couldn't read the disk
either).
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