Seems I'm always messing around with another Harddrive.
I just picked up a couple drives, (you would think I would
learn to leave them alone).
I got this Western Digital 4.3 gig 80 pin and a Quantum
Atlas 4.3 gig 68 pin.
I already have a Quntaum Atlas 9 gig 68 pin running in
my A3000. The Quantum 4.3 gig is the same drive as the
9 gig. I would think the setup would be the same, but
it isn't. What works for the 9 gig doesn't work for the
4.3 gig. A difference in firmware ?? ( the drive is good,
I'm sure).
On the Western Digital, the tech sheet says its backwords
compatable with SCSI 2 and SCSI 1. My A3k doesn't even
see it. I'm running OS 3.9 so the 4 gig barrier shouldn't
apply. Is there a bug in the Commodore SCSI software that
causes these problems? I know all the usual termination
and SCSI ID stuff. It seem every drive is different even
in the same family, as in the Quantum Atlas drives.
If someone has some deep dark secret about SCSI, I'd
like to know it.
