#Is Amax 4 Worth It?
14-Dec-93 12:00:05
Sb: #125028-#Is Amax 4 Worth It?
Fm: Erik Flom 71204,407
To: Paul Gerhardt 73467,3457
Oh man, what problems _don't_ I see with the empscsi.device!
Let's see:
I've got one 80MB & one 200MB Quantum drives, one Seagate 400MB drive, a
Syquest 5110C, and a Toshiba CD-ROM. This is in a six-month old 4000/040
w/ rev 9 Buster chip.
1. The CD-ROM has always worked like a charm.
2. When using HDToolBox or SCSIMounter to access the empscsi.device, they
will often lock up when polling certain drives (the 80, 200, & 400MB
drives specifically, though it'll occasionally lock up on the others).
3. When a drive locks up, it has to be powered down to reset it.
4. empscsi.device doesn't auto-mount devices, which is a real pain.
BTW, what's the deal for formatting a true MAC Syquest? When I run the
MacHD_Setup on a Syquest formatted using LaCie's SilverLining, it'll only
create a mountlist for the Mac partition, ignoring all the little
sub-partitions created during formatting on the Mac. Is this correct? (It
seems like I'd want a mountlist that includes all the apple specific
partitions on the drive.
Thanks,
Erik Flom
Erik Flom