[Coco] Re: RGB-DOS & SCSI Hard Drives

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Mark

Are you saying that the MAC drives are better?

On 12/18/03, Mark Marlette wrote:
> At 02:11 PM 12/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Can't speak for the RGB-DOS exactly. I can tell that it was feature
> lacking, things that were partially implemented when we acquired it. AS
> far as the format. ?? HDB-DOS works and Boisy has put a lot of work into
> this package..... I use MAC drives all the time. Night and day difference
> between the two. Supports the Ken-ton too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Well guys, I got my lot of lower sized SCSI hard drives in. They range
>> from 40MB and up. I've tried all the 40MB and 80MB hard drives with the
>> Ken-Ton and success, when I discovered that I needed to disable the
>> parity, they would work and be detected. But whenever I try to run the
>> format program to format the hard drive, I get an error message after
>> entering in all the technical information (and I gather this info from
>> hd-utils in turn which reads it from the hd itself). I gives an IO error
>> when it tries to format any of them and when I try the re-initialize
>> drive option in HD-Utils it gives a different error message everytime I
>> try a different drive. These were all at one time drives in old Apple MAC
>> machines. Would this have anything to do with it?
>> 
>> -Chris
>> 
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> 
Regards
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