neese@adaptex.UUCP (09/11/90)
>Ian King asks: >> I have just bought a Future Domain SCSI Host Adapter and a Maxtor >> 8760S SCSI Hard Disk > >I thought that Mr. Neese from Adaptec said that Maxtor does not >properly support SCSI and that Adaptec boards would no work >with Maxtor disk drives (was it only a PARTICLAR Maxtor?). It was the Maxtor 3000 series I have referred to. These drives do not properly arbitrate for the SCSI bus. It only prevents them from working peacefully with other SCSI devices on the bus. Under DOS it usually isn't a problem, as DOS will only issue one command at a time, but with UNIX it can be (probably will be) bad news. I have used other Maxtor drives with no problems. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ uunet!swbatl! {nominil,merch,cpe,mlite}!adaptex!neese