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From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>
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Subject: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950
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>> Hurrah!  The day is saved.  But that's only the beginning.  Then you
>> get an UPDATE to this driver and you think "Great, still don't have
>> this hardware to test with but the author says it's better,
>> so... *sigh*" Except maybe this time things break, and yet you still
>> don't know who out there actually HAS one of these things, and so it's
>> untested and doesn't get found out until 2 days before your release is
>> due to ship!  :-)
>
>Beware, I also have a FD 841 lying around. No docs and no status whether
>it works at all (hardware wise). It might be interesting to note that a 
>previous patched seagate driver (rel to 1.1.5 I think) produced by 
>Steve Gerakines (insert ??? here) worked OK. I once installed 1.1 from
>CDROM using a patched bootflop.
>

	And I also have an TMC 885, which can be occasionally persuaded
to drive a CD-ROM.

	Stephen