[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Sean]

<forehead slap>
Now that you mentioned the solution, I remember having to do that!
Sorry that knowledge was long forgotten. :)

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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