CompuServe Messages

woah! If C= designs their system to actually use the specification and the drive manufacturers fail to meet the drive specification, it's C='s fault when it doesn't work? Huh?!!! The comprable situation is where a manufacturer of computers follows the RS-232 specification and you complain that your modem, which deviates from the specification, does not. Who is to blame here? The computer manufacturer or the modem manufacturer? In my book, it's the modem manufacturer's fault for not following the specification. Apparently this is not the case in your book. Whether or not real world testing occured, the plain fact of the matter is that certain drive manufacturers did not follow the specification. I've been bit by this as well, as my IDE is completely incompatible with any board except the one I have installed. I suggest you look at the real source of the problem, the drive manufacturer, rather than C=.