[Coco] RGB-DOS & Ken-Ton SCSI (Correct Spelling)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 05:59, Bruce Calkins wrote:
>I have found some "sensitivity" to the connections being disturbed. 
> I have not nailed down the reason, but, often when I unplug and
> plug the system back together, it won't see or find the Hard
> Drives.  I have been thinking it was something to do with my Disto
> interface for some time.  FWIW I have a Disto Super Controller with
> a SCSI satellite board, Adaptec 4001A SCSI-2-MFM board(S) running
> two Maxtor XT2190 MFM drives.  (The 2ed Adaptec board has only one
> drive, and does not respond, , yet.)
>
>I am not sure, but I suspect there may be some incompatibility with
> the more modern SCSI drives to our older interfaces.  I don't have
> any hard information to support that theory though.
>
Those crimped on, insulation displacement cables can and will get 
flakey after a bit of time.  And usually its not will, but when.

>Bruce W.
>
>> I'm thinking it may be the hard drive.
>> I'm going to get some even smaller hard drives here in the week to
>> come from 20MB & up to see if I have any better luck with those.
>>
>> -Chris

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