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Re: Adaptec AHA2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Welbon)
Fri Jan 3 19:46:26 1997
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:31:45 -0600 (CST)
From: Edward Welbon <welbon@bga.com>
To: Joachim Paulini <j.paulini@tu-bs.de>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701031649.RAA20364@miles.thp.nat.tu-bs.de>
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Joachim Paulini wrote:
> NCR (now Symbios Logic) controllers and Adaptec controllers format disks
> in different ways. However, NCR controllers are able to work with
> Adaptec-formatted disks, but Adaptecs are not able to work with NCR-
> formatted. You may reformat, but you lose your data.
I have never had to reformat a disk, my seagate works with both the
adaptec and the NCR, so does my quantum, ibm's (various) using the
original formats. Better to be lucky than smart perhaps.
Ed Welbon; welbon@bga.com;
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain
