jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) (12/26/89)
I have just about had it with Ontrack's product. The problem is this, Disk
Manager thinks that an ST412/506 drive is SCSI. What was going on was this, I
was getting a machine ready to have ELS Netware Level II put on it by have the
hard drive low level formatted. The system configuration is this:
drive is a Seagate ST4096. The version of Disk Manager was 4.0. Now here's
ALR 386/220
WD1006V-MM2
Seagate ST4096
The version of Disk Manager was 4.0. But Disk Manager thinks that the drive
is a SCSI drive. Why? I called up Seagate and filed a bug report last
Thursday, but they haven't returned my call yet. And here's something
funnier, the problem has replicated itself on my home system, and here's what
it has:
80-Data 16 Motherboard (16 Mhz/1 wait 286, G-2 Chip Set)
Seagate ST151
WA3-16
The version of Disk Manager I used was 3.3. I know, old and before the ST151,
but I didn't get a copy of it with my ST151, so I used the copy I got with my
old ST225, worked right the first time. I attempted to reformat the drive
because it is giving me problems when I power up the system for the first
time, and Disk Manager insists that the drive is a SCSI drive.
I know that the drive is ok (or seems to be) because after the drive does
start up properly, the data is intact. I suspect the controller and I'm about
to yell at Kimpsion International over this.
// JCA
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