Subject: Re: Kudos to Perry; Quantum to Charles?
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/1995 22:06:50
In message <199512201958.LAA10063@toccata.fugue.com>, Ted Lemon writes:
>
> Perry, thanks for the offer to make me a kernel, but you actually hit
> the nail right on the head with your comment about Quantum drives - I
> whacked in an old DEC rz25 that I've been using and sure enough, it
> works fine. I owe you a beer at Usenix if you're there and
> interested.
>
> Charles, do you want the Quantum drive in question? It fails pretty
> reliably, so it's no use to me. I could probably return it, but if
> it'll help you debug the driver, it's yours.
>
I wouldn't be so quick to give it away. I've been using the identical
drive (Quantum Lightning 730) on the NCR card with absolutely no problems.
And I have a *slower* CPU (p90). However, I haven't upgraded to 1.1 yet.
Did you also see problems with any pre-1.1 versions of the driver?