specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) (03/09/91)
I am still seeking information on the CLTD Controller and its accompanying SCSI DOS 3.0. I bought 2 31 meg drives and a CLTD controller with no docs or information on it and I have problems now and then. 1 problem is read/write errors. From time to time I will be downloading and IT says the drive has a READ/WRITE error when it really turns out that the software or the board itself has CRASHED. I exit the term and do a dir of the hard drive and nothing is there. So I reset the machine and turn off the drive and it restores normal operation. The format utility I have does not seem to allocate bad blocks either. Instead I went through and use diskdoctor after a fresh format to find the bad blocks, then used TFILE to allocate those blocks in a file. It seems to work ok, but there has got to be a more efficient way to do it. I am considering trashing the CLTD driver and hardware and buying something new and better. It is slow an anoyying and CRASHES way too much. Secondly, I have a Starboard II ram expansion with 1 meg. I would like to expand it to 2 megs, but I bought this used too with no docs and no ordering info as to how much the other meg would cost. Does anyone have any information on the price of JUST the extra ram? Can I order another meg from Microbotics and just plug it in? Is it possible to build this board myself? And finally, how much is it (Assumin around 75$?!?) Also, how much is a 68881 (??) math coprocessor?! My last request got no reply at all, so even if you don't know, consider sending me a message saying "I dunno" :) Byron -- Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\ specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\ uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\ "We're not going to give you 500 dimes..." - SNL | \\\/ // \\ m i g a