10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
12:36 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I think my Tahiti 1 is dead. I tried the other drives on a PCI-based PC
(running Win2K) and they were recognized, but I still couldn't read the
target disk. It's a Pioneer DC-502a Write-Once disk. I was hoping one of
these drives would be able to read it. I have a WORM drive but it's
physically incompatible with this disk.
Thanks for the help nonetheless.
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The problem is
I'm trying to get a system working with several different
old MO drives (Maxoptix Tahiti 1, Pinnacle Micro REO-650/1300, Sony
<forgot the model>). The Maxoptix is not even being recongized, and may
well be dead dead dead. The Pinnacle is being recognized but I'm getting
the errors mentioned. The Sony drive gets recognized OK and the system
boots but then I get a bizarre message in the Adaptec BIOS that says it's
not a disk drive(!) Well then what is it? It's a Macinstor drive (ugh,
can't think...forgot who the manufacturer is).
ARG! I played with all of these (and continually cursed the day I first
had to deal with them) while I was developing SCSI stuff at IBM.
When I delt with the Tahiti-1 it had continuous microcode updates and
the optical cartidges were not compatible with anyone else's.