From: dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA products?
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 03:19:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov09.142249.29630@zds-oem.zds.com> easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
>In article <1992Nov8.211549.8972@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:
>>In article <36796@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>
>>>As george said, master/slave compatibility in the IDE world
>>>is a can of worms, and it is or was especially bad in the early/cheap 2.5"
>>>drives.
>>
>> Two C= Engineers, and one Zenith worker have said this in the same week.
>         ^^^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^
>  Hmmm...  This can be taken several ways...  I guess it's time to 
>clarify my .sig

  Oops... I didn't have the .sig handy, but remembered the Monte and 
Zenith. Doesn't that help? :)

>>Is anyone willing to post a list of compatible IDE drives or 
>>cross-reference table of drives that will work properly in a master/slave
>>setup?
>
>  In general if you pick drives from the same manufacturer you should be
>okay (assuming that they are recent vintage, some old drives may not
>work with newer drives).

 3 million Amiga users with 4-800 dollar machines means a *LOT* of
hacking and quackery. If C= were willing to do a technical article
for AW or Amazing that would publish this, it would be nice. Perhaps
a detailed explanation, a list of drives that are KNOWN to work, and
the disclaimer that C= is publishing it because they are a bunch of 
nice guys with a complex about high-end systems....:)

>  The other alternative is to wait for the ATA spec to be adopted by
>all drive manufacturers.  At the rate this is happening, the A9000
>may be out by then. :-)

 I distrust any spec driven by 400 companies trying to suck the marrow
out of a dead dog's bones. No offense, it happens to be where the
prestige is. (No money, just prestige... )

>  In any event, always get complete documentation for both drives, study
>it over and over, offer up a sacrifice to the appropriate drive diety of
>your choice, and hope for the best. :-)  If a certian setup refuses to
>work, try swapping the drives, make the slave the master and the master
>the slave and try again.

 Voodoo quackery. *I*'ll use it everytime, but most people don't
worship favorable deities...:)

 Again, this can o' worms needs to be cracked open, and handed out to
all the Amiga fisher[price] people. 

>  ___  ___    Jeff Easton             easton@zds-oem.zds.com
> (__  (__     Systems Engineer        j.easton@mi04.zds.com
> ___) ___)    Zenith Data Systems     easton@andrews.edu
>Monte Carlo   Z-LS/20 - Choice of a quiet generation
>Yes, I drive trains for a living...  :-)

 The three things a kid wants to be at age 3: A fireman, a policeman, and
an en-gan-eer. Notice no one wants to be a lawyer? Unless Dad was very
good...
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