acton@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Acton) (05/31/91)
I am writing this note on behalf of a friend so I may be a little
confused on some of the details. My friend recently acquired a Quantum
Pro Drive 40 SCSI hard disk for use with his Atari 1040 ST of early
1988 vintage. He also got a BMS 200 from someone who was getting rid
of their Atari system. Unfortunately he is not having very much luck
getting this combination to work. He can format, partition and mount
the disk but any files copied to the disk are corrupted. If the file
is a text file every now and then one of the characters is replaced
with a " (intuition suggests this happens every 2048 characters).
Executables larger than 2048 bytes execute for a bit and then crash
with 3 bombs, smaller executables work fine. My guess is that the
program has finally got around to executing one of the corrupted
bytes when it crashes. So the questions:
1) Has anyone got one of these Quantum Pro Drives (it is from a NeXT machine)
to work with the BMS 200 and if so what did you have to do and what
version of the BMS software are you using? (This disk has a cache
just in case that is causing problems.)
2) Just in case no one can help, is Berkeley Microsystems reachable by email
and if so what is their email address?
Donald
acton@cs.ubc.ca