Want: ICD controller
3 messages in this thread
I want to buy an ICD harddisk controller, either one of the following:
AdScsi 2000
AdScsi 2080
Trifecta
If you have one of the above to sell, please leave mail, I want to buy
this fast.
Thank you
Tom
alternate: jonest@hfsi.com
I don't make jokes, I just report what the government does…Will Rogers
I bought a Trifecta and ICD didn't think to tell me that it would not work
with certain IDE hard drives. I hac the biggest problem with their Tech
support.
I made 2 trips to my nearest dealer (1.5 hours away) to find out what the
problem was.
I would suggest getting a DATAFLYER or at least don't use any WD drives.
Tim
Tim
Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. Western Digital and Maxtor IDE
drives are well known in the PC realms for their lack of compatibility
with other brands and/or controllers. Same goes for SCSI drives from them.
I had a WD ide in my 386 and it refused to live with a Seagate too.
I have also had my problems with ICD support efforts on a 2080 which, in
contradiction of their latest ads, actually would NOT accept 8mb of ram.
The tech I called commented "you got it to accept 6mb? you're lucky most
people can only get 4mb to work". Then the new rom upgrade dropped support
for OMTI and Adaptec4070A adapters and they still continued to sell OMTI
adapters in their fall flyer last year.
But in defense of ICD controllers they are one of the most versatile scsi
host adapters out there and will run with a lot more different drives
(than GVP will, in particular). So, like Commodore itself, I will suffer
the bad service to get the engineering I need. You are implying that WD
drives work with Dataflyer controllers I take it? Useful to know.
Tom
alternate: jonest@hfsi.com
I don't make jokes, I just report what the government does…Will Rogers