CompuServe Messages

The termination is provided in the Konica drive. I know, (or at least *think* I know) because adding the Konica to the SCSI bus was obviously what I needed to eliminate the *severe* problems that the Conner CP-340 was having. After having done that, haven't had a *whit* of a problem with the regular HD. It seemed to me that there were issues that weren't covered in the manual, as in modifying parameters for the drives. Unless of course, the Advantage doesn't allow you to do so- which would be a pity. It seems that most other controllers give you many more options in terms of mountlist parameters, like MaxTransfer. Also, the install program wants to do every thing "automatically", but what happens when it can't read the proper configuration information from the embedded controller? On BOTH of my drives, there is at least one error message that comes up at the time of formatting. On the Konica, it gets an error regarding one of 'em, either "reading drive configuration" or "reading controller configuration"- and on the Conner it reports an error on BOTH. I have also discovered that the gadgets for LUN, ID, etc. seem to be totally worthless, since if the format program can't read a drive on the SCSI bus, those gadgets seem to be inactive as far as entering the information manually. In addition, one of the main reasons I was interested in more options in the setup software was the rather dissapointing data transfer rates I've been able to get out of the drive. I know that ICD makes big waves re: the Advantage's speed, but it seems substandard for a 29ms Conner to only peak out at something slightly under 200k reads. Dir scan and seek/read seem to be fine, but I was led to believe by various sources that I could achieve something better than that. Now, with another controller I could go in and change MaxTransfer, but I don't see a way to do that with the Advantage. Oh- by the way, does the Advantage require BindDrivers? It wasn't exactly clear in the manual either. Thanks. + Phil +