#: 11737 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    12-Aug-91  19:13:42
Sb: Disto SCSI Interface
Fm: james pottage 71750,2012
To: All

Attion all Disto Super Controller Users. I have recently solved a rather
lengthy problem with my hard drive. Over the past year I have had 4 SCSI drives
crash on my machine. All of them were completely destroyed by my system. After
a great deal of trial and error I finally found that my 2 in 1 board was
defective and was blowing the drives. Three of the four drives were never even
formatted because they died on the initial format. I had the interface (2 in 1)
tested by CRC and after they destroyed one of their drives they confirmed that
the card was indeed the problem. Sunsequently I have had a report from Jim
Snider (who I believe is a technician for COCO Pro???) report that he has heard
of this also happening with a few four in one boards. I do not believe this is
a wide spread problem, but it is something to keep in mind if your hard drive
crashes. Moreover, CRC stated that they had never encountered this problem
before, so it will probably never affect most users. If you have had a similar
problem please leave a message on the board and check your controller. As well,
it may be of some interest that the drives that I blew were Seagate St125N's
and ST157N'S and the ones reported by Jime Snider were ST157N's.

                                               Jim Pottage