[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Bruce W. Calkins]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hirsch"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:54 PM


> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
>> I'm pulling what little hair I have left out of my head...  I'm trying to
>> setup a Seagate ST225 hard drive for use with this controller (the exact
>> disk model it's intended to be used with).
>>
>> Everything goes well until physical verify.  It counts up to 0EF and just
>> stops.  The drive access light goes out and the computer is not
>> responsive. 100% repeatable.
>
> Problem solved!  Thanks to Chester Patterson's kind help, this hangup was
> solved by doing
>
> OS9: tmode -pause
>
> before running format.  It was stopping at the end of the screen (thus the
> neat boundary for where the numbering ended).
>
> Only the Howard Medical documentation (written by Chester) bothered to
> mention this.  Not a word about it in the Burke and Burke manual.  They
> must have been plagued with support calls from folks like me.  I guess I
> "should have known" to turn off scroll pause.
>
> Steve

Now that you mention it, I do remember running into that problem way back
around 1993.  Must be CRS catching up with me.

Bruce W.