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Re: Tech's dilemma: Seagate TR-4 drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Brink)
Mon Nov 23 15:48:44 1998
From: "Christian Brink" <strat@pacifier.com>
To: "bob jones" <bobj@eskimo.com>, <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:48:18 -0800
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I have the Mylex Controller and the TR-4 and both work like a champ.
My distributor sent me the IDE by mistake so I tried to put it in ,just
could not get it to work. The SCSI TR-4 is incredibly fast for the price and
Mylex Controller has been nothing but a dream.
>New PII, HD on primary IDE cable, cdrom as master and Seagate TR-4 tape
>drive (4GB uncompressed) as slave on secondary IDE cable. System locally
>purchased.
>
>Apparent failure of cdrom (little use, about 3 months after delivery of
>system). Back to shop: tech finds the tape drive has failed. Without
>tape drive in system the cdrom is ok. Both cdrom and tape drive normal
>when system new. I did the switches master/slave, cdrom out of the
>system, etc. No question. The tape drive is bad.
>
>A neighbor with Gateway system same general setup -- same apparent cdrom
>failure -- again actually failure of the Seagate TR-4 tape drive.
>
>Seagate completely helpful. Sending me SCSI TR-4 drive no extra charge,
>so I don't have any kick. This is just information.
>
>I've ordered a Mylex BT 930 SCSI controller. Anybody out there have one
>of these? It uses BusLogic drivers. Is it going to be ok? It's cheap at
>$70, I think.
>
>bob jones (bobj@eskimo.com)
>
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