HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: koelman@cuby.stc.nl (Ton Koelman)
Subject: Re: Thanks to all for reaction to Philips Monitor question
Reply-To: koelman@stc.nato.int
Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:01:16 GMT

In article <2045@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)  
writes:
> Thanks, all, for replying. I just printed them out and message will go  
to
> Philips head office.
> 
> 2 reactions were positive about the monitor and said it was all Sony
> marketing. 

10 to 1, they haven't seen the Sony...

--
Ton Koelman   e-mail: koelman@stc.nato.int (NeXT Mail Welcome!)
SHAPE Technical Centre, P.O. Box 174, 2501 CD  The Hague
The Netherlands  (voice: 31-70-3142429, fax: 31-70-3142111)
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From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
Subject: Re: Mono Monitor Size: 17" or 16" or 15.5" ?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:55:27 GMT

In article <Bu8ysE.Ku9@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
>>>>Can't be so.  Mitsubishi makes a 35" monitor.
>
>I believe the unit you speak of is FOUR TIMES SMALLER THAN MINE!!
>Explanation: when it was first announced (The Mitsubishi) I was willing to
>spend the 4,000 dollars for it (REALLY) but was told it ONLY DISPLAYED
>640*480 pixels!!!! My monitor is 1280*960 (my 24 inch Moniterm) and thus
>has FOUR TIMES AS MUCH SCREEN AREA than the "older" 35 inch tube you claim
>is bigger than mine (four times as less pixels)

Seventh grade geometry wasnt your specialty eh?  Area is height times
width.  The number of ways you choose to break up that fixed area does
not change the area.  As for 1280x960, youve still missed the 1280x1024
boat provided by PCs, which can be had on a fine 19" Sony monitor or a
fine 21" NEC monitor.  SGIs new RealityEngine does 1600x1280, though I
dont know which monitor they use.  Almost all modern workstations and
quite a few X terminals run at 1280x1024.

   <<Stuff deleted>>

>This 2048 by 2048 makes me disbelieve you if the current smalles trinitron
>pel element for a tri-phoshor group is 0.25 millimeters horizontally and
>(guessing) 0.4 millimeters vertically then for a vertical resolution of
>your claimed 2048 pel elements would measure (2048*0.4 mm = > 32 inches!!!!)
>Therefore either it is not a BRIGHT monitor using trinitron shadowmask,
>else it is A MARKETING LIE AND A TOTAL MYTH.

Youre making very bad assumptions.  Sony demonstrated two nice monitors
at the 1989 SIGRAPH conference.  The first was the 2048x2048 monitor, the
other was a 2048x1536 19" monitor.  The former is used by airline controllers,
the latter was a prototype to scope out interest.  Another booth had a really
nice fishtank shaped monitor and reel to reel video deck for displaying an
beyond HDTV recording format of 1910x1024.  There was also a projection booth
there with a Sony set rendering 1280x1024 (from one of their NEWS workstations)
on a 10 foot diagonal screen (yes, it was a multiscan system.)

>I rest my case. Until I see otherwise, I still believe that I have the
>worlds largest computer monitor.
>
>BWilliams

You really should get out more often.  SIGRAPH is held every year, and is a
great place to learn whats really going on out there.  -Steve
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From: lars@boznag.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Miller)
Subject: Re: 8mm vs. 4mm (DAT)
Reply-To: lars@boznag.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:11:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.181239.740@strangeways.unh.edu>  
tjb@strangeways.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes:
> Anyone with any experiences in this area?  I have the opportunity to  
either
> buy a used 2 year old Exabyte 8200 8mm or to wait a few more months and  
buy
> a new 4mm DAT for the same ~$1000 price.  I've compared them (I had both
> the Exabyte in question and a DEC TLZ04 bolted to my color turbo) and  
they
> are pretty similiar in performance.  The Exabyte was about 10 minutes  
quicker
> in backing up about 700MB but there are more DAT drives on campus than  
8mm.

I work on an experiment that uses both 8mm and (starting recently)
4mm tape drives on SGI machines.  The 8mm drives tend to be slightly
faster than the 4mm drives.  However, they are less reliable, and
are slower at loading tapes than the 4mm drives (at least, the ones
we use).  Also, we have been able to more reliably use the entire
capacity of the 4mm tapes (often the 8mm tapes run out before 2GB.  You
may not run into this problem if you are just doing backups).
[btw, we use archive python 4mm drives, not DEC's]

Overall, I'd say that the 4mm drive is superior.

Lawrence Miller
High Energy Physics
The University of Chicago
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: SOLUTION (was: Re: Drives disappearing from label query commands, but still boot and operate)
Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:06:53 GMT

Thanks for the responses (whew!  They came fast!); it was my silly
error.  I should have used /dev/rsd<blah> instead of /dev/sd<blah> to
get the info I needed about the drives.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
From: donaldlf@white.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (Leslie F Donaldson)
Subject: I860 chip in the NeXT Cube
Keywords: I860
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:24:01 GMT

My roommate is doing a graphics project on our school's NeXT cube and I am
trying to find a way to use the i860 chip on the NeXT dimension board.
Any information would be helpful.

Note: I have searched the NextLibrary directory but could have
missed something.

Thank You
Leslie Donaldson

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From: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Best place to buy toner cartridge for NeXT printer?
Reply-To: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Suite Software, Anaheim CA.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:01:49 GMT

> In article <1992Sep3.151127.4000@fcom.cc.utah.edu>  
alex@fff.chem.utah.edu (Alex  
> Dommasch) writes:
> > Can you get toner cartridges by mail order?  And if so, who knows of a  
place  
> to  
> > get them cheap?  Also, do most places take a spent cartridge for  
recycling?

How about COLOR toner? (cartridges with R, G, or B powder, not just  
black)?
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: The Future of NeXT Hardware
Keywords: NeXT, future, NeXTcube
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:43:24 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Sep7.043435.10427@reed.edu> rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour) writes:

> I wanted to find out [...] what NeXT has in store for the future of the hardware platform.

so would every other participant in this group :)
-- 
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Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu   NeXT mail accepted
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Thrid-party CD-ROM drive on a NeXT?
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:23:38 GMT
Organization: L5 Computing

In article <1992Sep9.192219.9569@athena.mit.edu> isako@mtl.mit.edu (Isako  
Hoshino) writes:
|> NEC has a CD-ROM drive, street market priced for about $560 with
|> better specs (280 ms access, 300kb/sec transfer rate for Macintosh
|> configuration).  Can you connect a third-party CD-ROM to a NeXT, 
|> especially if it was configured either for a Macintosh or IBM-compatible?  
|> Has anyone done this before?  If so, how?
Make sure it's a CDR-74. Just today a person at NEC's tech support stated
that the CDR-73M/CDR-83M are designed for use with the Trantor T-128
controller only. This person claimed that they required a "ROM upgrade" to
work with any other controller.

The CDR-74 I have here _does_ work better than my CDR-73M so there is
something going on here (the CDR-74 has always been a bit twitchy with
write once discs, the CDR-74 is rock solid on the same discs, my CDR-73M
also heroic means were needed to install 3.0 using the CDR-73M on my turbo
color, it seems to like my slab better...)

More details as I learn them...

Scotty
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From: lance@insight.com (Lance Charlish)
Subject: Re: Color 17" vs 21": which is better?
Reply-To: lance@insight.com
Organization: Insight Software
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:27:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.050121.20036@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip  
McDunnough) writes:
 
> Now that NeXT has a Trinitron 17" colour (which won't work with the ND)
> and an adb keyboard (which won't work with a Cube apparently), I would
> wait and see what the new 17" monitor was like. The older one was not  
>very good.

The ADB Keyboard and mouse DO work with a turbo cube and a 21" monitor.  

lance@insight.com
From: f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: floopy drives
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:29:48 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <1992Sep9.215629.18611@nntp.uoregon.edu>, dna@boltzman.uoregon.edu (johnny powell) writes:
> 
> This message is my first posting--please excuse the mistakes.
> 
> Do other NeXT station users have erractic floopy drive problems?
> My difficulty appears to be software--perhaps I'm in the wrong group.
> 
> johnny

Mine quit recognizing the floppy just the other day.  All of the files seem to
be there (with the correct permissions). 

Can someone provide a definitive test to determine if it is a soft/hardware
problem?

 
Randomly, Kelly Cunningham
<deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu><f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu><jkellyc@tenet.edu>  
   NeXTMail (encouraged)       VMS Mail (grudgingly read)    Pine (tolerated)
        Help! I've fallen into network hell and I can't reach my beer!

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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: CDPlayer fix anytime soon?
Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:21:11 GMT

I recently saw a demo of 3.0 and I was wondering if the CDPlayer app
will be fixed or if anyone has a fix for it (patch perhaps)?  I read
the release notes, but I am in the situation where I've got a SCSI ID
device 0 and 1 and I cannot change the 1's device number (I don't have
any documentation on how to change the SCSI # of a Quantum 105MB HD --
the ones shipping with 105MB machines a while back).

I hope to be able to use CDPlayer when I get 3.0.

Any info or pointers on how to change the Quantum's ID or patches for
CDPlayer are welcome.

Thanks a lot!
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Vice versa: NeXT CD-ROM on Sun
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:05:20 GMT
Organization: L5 Computing

In article <cefX_Gq00VpNEw_1Yi@andrew.cmu.edu>  writes:
|> Sun boxes seem to have problems with devices that can't accept 512 byte
|> sectoring.  The NeXT is much more intelligent about such things.
Try mounting a 1K sectored DOS formatted Syquest cartridge under 3.0.

It no workee. 512 byte sectored Syquests work much better...

And 3.0 is the first release of NS that can mount 2K sectored Unix
filesystems on a CD-ROM drive.

Scotty
From: alex@b62150 (Alexander Hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Ever heard of this?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 17:54:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: alex@b62150.student.cwru.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62150.student.cwru.edu
Keywords: Micropolis 1 Gig HD


Hello Everyone!

     Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a  
friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991 (I  
think).  Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of this  
before and if so what were the developments?  As I am looking into a new  
hard drive this would seem like a good lead to follow (assuming it  
exists).  You can reply via email or post it if you think others would  
benefit.  Thanks a lot for the help.  

    Alexander (alex@b62150.student.cwru.edu)


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********************************* ARTICLE ********************************

Attention NeXTstation Owners (or want 2 Bs)!  This one's for you...

If you are like me, about to buy (or already own) a NeXTstation
because you don't have some huge pile of cash to fund a loaded
NeXTcube, then check this out!

Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
>> Coming soon:
>
>> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
>
>> 10 ms access time
>> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
>> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
>> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
>> Supports command queuing
>> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
>
>> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected  
prices
>> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
>
>> No release pricing was given.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
>
In my quest for a good drive buy, I came across this drive from 
Micropolis.  After checking into it and comparing against other 
drives, this drive is really something!!!...

According to the data sheet, is should fit into a NeXTstation...

..According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105 
Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).

However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.  
Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
get 1GB + 105MB.  You can get the 105 a case, power supply, & 
cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your 
work home [or home to work]).

****************************** END ARTICLE *******************************
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From: jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory)
Subject: getty vs tip on ttyda -- an old story
Organization: Pro Forma
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:33:26 GMT

I trying to set up a NeXT for dialin on ttyda, via a Hayes 2400 modem.  This is  
for UUCP, but that is irrelevant, I believe.

Two years ago, when I tried to do this, I ran into the problem whereby when the  
getty was turned "on" for ttyda, it would not "block waiting for DCD to be  
asserted", and would spit the login: prompt out immediately upon being reset.   
This was on a 68030, and I proved that EVEN WITH NOTHING CONNECTED, this  
behavior would occur.  i.e., it was not the cable or the modem.  Despite my  
hopes, it was not solved with the 68040 upgrade or any of the software  
releases.

Since that time, a message appeared on the net regarding this problem, and I  
snarfed off, knowing I would come by this path again.  Here is the relevant  
part of that post:

> open(2) does indeed block as advertised, but only if you have a
> device connected to the port which ties the DCD pin LOW (ground
> state).  By default, the port will float DCD HIGH (asserted or
> "true")... To simulate this, connect the DCD pin to ground via
> a dropping resistor (say 1k ohm).  voila! open blocks. Disconnect
> the resistor and voila! the open goes through. Check what your
> attached device does. You may be surprised.

Now, how do I get everything to work as advertised?  Can the modem be set to  
hold the DCD low (it is set per the docs, &C1)?  Will the resistor trick work  
other than for just a test?  While I have real problems understanding why a  
dropping resistor is necessary on a NeXT with a Hayes modem (spent extra to get  
modem NeXT mentioned), I can put it on if I have to.  But there has got to be a  
better way.  Does any know what it is?

I would also like to hear from people who are successfully using a NeXT with  
both dialin and dialout working (without editing /etc/ttys in between).

Thanks in advance.
--J Gregory
From: bryant@math.duke.edu (Robert Bryant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD-ROM FAQ?
Keywords: CD-ROM, OS3.0 Upgrade
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:18:21 GMT
Distribution: usa

Dear Netters,

	I only follow this group sporadically, but I have seen _some_  
discussion of problems with connecting CD-ROM drives of various kinds to NeXTs.   
Is there a FAQ for this?  I have looked several places and cannot find one.

	I am specifically interested in using a CD-ROM drive to install the  
upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1).  I don't really need a CD-ROM drive for anything  
else and would really like to be able to get by without purchasing a new one.   
Is there a FAQ for the upgrade?  Again,  I looked in NeXTAnswers for info, but  
there wasn't much.

	Any help would be appreciated.  Also, I am not sure that my postings  
are actually getting out since I have never had a reply to one.  Could some  
kind soul (outside of Duke) please reply to this posting so that I will at  
least know that I am getting through?

	Yours,

	Robert Bryant
	bryant@math.duke.edu
From: dna@boltzman.uoregon.edu (johnny powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: floopy drives
Keywords: floopy
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:56:29 GMT
Reply-To: dna@boltzman.uoregon.edu
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services


This message is my first posting--please excuse the mistakes.

Do other NeXT station users have erractic floopy drive problems?
My difficulty appears to be software--perhaps I'm in the wrong group.

johnny
From: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu (Steve Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Power supply failures
Keywords: power supply
Date: 15 Sep 1992 21:10:35 GMT
Reply-To: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

After suffering our fifth loss of a slab power supply, I thought I would
post to see if anyone else has been seeing this problem.  In 4 of the
cases, the slab would not respond to the power key.  We've swapped
keyboards, sound boxes, etc. -- no luck. The other power supply smoked itself into
oblivion.  Four of the cases were covered under warranty, and the failures occurred
in the infant stages. So, is a 5 out of 13 ratio considered bad? 
We also have 4 cubes that have been flawless.

- Steve Johnson, Systems Manager, Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
  Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu
  no NeXTmail, please
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From: moksha!mgb (Michael Branton)
Subject: mounting scsi devices in a PC tower
Keywords: scsi
Reply-To: mgb@stetson.bitnet
Organization: Totally Disorganized
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:20:58 GMT

I'm contemplating taking my external scsi devices (Teac tape drive,
Syquest drive, CD-ROM drive and a hard disk) mounting them in
a PC tower case and using the case's power supply. Is this a reasonable idea ?
What kinds of gotcha's should I look out for ?

-- 


-Michael

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From: schlick+@cs.cmu.edu (Steven Schlick)
Subject: Extender card and blank front plates 
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:19:42 GMT

Doses anyone know where I can get an extender card for the NextBus?

Also, does anyone know a supplier of blank front plates for NextBus cards
(painted in NeXT black, of course)?

Please mail replies and I'll post a summary.

- Steve Schlick

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Sun "Archive Python" Tape Drive [ Viper, not Python ? ]
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 07:33:00 GMT

In <1992Sep2.023035.11992@ee.gatech.edu> lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart) writes:

| My boss had a few dozen Sun 150 meg tape drives lying about gathering dust,
| so I thought I'd snarf one and use it to backup my 'station with.  Wrong.
| 
| I connected it on it's lonesome (as SCSI id 4) to the NeXT, with a terminator,
| and get I/O errors on all read/writes with gnutar.

The Python is the DAT drive.  It *does* support variable block size.
The Viper is the QIC drive (and does not support variable block size).

Others have covered the mode issues; assuming you actually have the
Viper.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:14:31 EDT
From: <MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Foreign CD-ROM disks on NeXT

I hope someone will fill in some gaps about CD-ROM for me and the rest of
this group.

  As I understand it, the ISO CD-ROM format is some kind of hierarchical
file system modeled after the one Unix offers (based on OS-9?).  I presume
that msdos, Mac, Unix, or NeXT must develop some kind of driver that translates
to and from that format.

  Does this mean the data files on a CD-ROM will be available to NeXT's file
viewer.  For example, will the Great Works of Literature on a GWOL disk
be readable?  I know that the *software* for reading them will be useless.  I
am curious about the data.
From: billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: floopy drives
Keywords: floopy
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:44:16 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

In article <1992Sep9.215629.18611@nntp.uoregon.edu> dna@boltzman.uoregon.edu writes:
>
>Do other NeXT station users have erractic floopy drive problems?
>My difficulty appears to be software--perhaps I'm in the wrong group.
>
Maybe alt.floopy.erractic can help.


Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 1992 13:21:22 -0400 
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Vice versa: NeXT CD-ROM on Sun

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 8-Sep-92 Vice versa: NeXT
CD-ROM on Sun Mark Conway@equity.enet. (568)

>I just saw a previous article confirming that the Sun CD-ROM works on a NeXT.
>Has anyone tried a NeXT CD-ROM on a Sun?  I first changed the SCSI number from
>the factory setting of 4 to 6.  That got the Sun to recognize the CD-ROM drive
>at reboot time.  Then I tried to mount the CD-ROM with the following command:
>
>mount -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>
>This caused repeated overflow messages, and the drive never mounted.  Is there
>a mount option such as rsize that I need to use because of different buffer
>sizes? Thanks for the help.

Something like "Data buffer overrun", followed by a "SCSI bus reset--
target <blah> now syncronous at 4.0 M/s"?

You may be SOL...I've know several devices that work fine on the NeXT
but fail to work on Suns (specifically, SPARCstation II's and IPX's). 
One example was a Wangtek 6200 DAT tape drive that failed completely,
another was a Fujitsu 2266SA (1.1 Gig 5.25" HD) that had to be
reformatted on my NeXT for 512 byte sectors, rather than 1K, before the
Sun would touch it.

Sun boxes seem to have problems with devices that can't accept 512 byte
sectoring.  The NeXT is much more intelligent about such things.

It might be helpful for you to describe what Sun machine you're using,
and to possibly include a transcript of the SCSI bus errors.

-Chuck

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