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Hello there, SCSI gurus. Perhaps you can offer me your opinions. I ran across a place advertising a real attractive price on a Maxtor LXT-100S 3.5" hard drive ($379). Was wondering what the general consensus out there was on that drive. I know Maxtor has an excellent reputation, but somewhere in the dark past I remember a thread involving compatible drives for Microbotics Hardframe SCSI controller, and apparently the LXT-100 simply wouldn't work with it at all. Now, I don't have a Hardframe (I have an ICD Advantage 2000) but I would like to have an idea if this drive is going to cause me undue compatibility problems. I have had my fill of compatibility problems, from the nonstandard SCSI implementation of the Conner CP-340 drive I now use (which also doesn't contain a terminator pack), to the Konica KT-510 10.7MB SCSI floppy drive, which still acts totally flaky. I was previously using both of these in an external box, connected to an A2090 in a Subsystem 500 expansion chassis underneath an Amiga 500. The Conner was extremely flaky until I realized it needed to be terminated, which the Konica conveniently did for me. On the other hand, I would regularly get the SCSI bus completely locked up (the activity light on the KT-510 would come on and not go off) right after the Binddrivers command polled the SCSI bus. I thought that this was at least partly due to the infamous 2090's less-than-accurate support of removeable media drives. I looked forward to the day that I could actually *use* the Konica, with my new removeable-media-friendly ICD, which wouldn't work in the Subsystem. I'm now discovering that I'm having similiar (but not quite as bad) problems, even with the new controller. Am I going to go through the same headaches with the LXT-100? Should I just get the Quantum 105S, which was my other choice, and swallow an additional $170 or so? It's just that I'd heard that, in general, Maxtor was about as good as HD's get. True? + Phil +