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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] doesn't find harddisk: 1542B vs. 1742A (standard mode) ?
Keywords: 386BSD Adaptec 1542B 1742A
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:20:58 GMT

david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:

>>If I select "low-level format" in the menu, the controller scans for drives
>>and displays SCSI-Id 1 and the name looks like what it should be, i.e.

>Just a hint, but 386BSD looks for and initialises the driver for unit 0.

>Make your hard drive unit 0, and try again.
Oh ! What a typo. It was SCSI-Id 0 all over the place where I did put 1.
I am very sorry for this misunderstanding.
I am now trying the new scsi-beta drivers. I did build a new kernel
today and will test it this evening (just booting from the floppy and
"install").

>Lastly, its a fact that there are problems related to SCSI drives with
>BIOS'es which fake the disk geometry. The AHA1542b does, so I could not
>boot DOS and install a working BSD on the same drive.
That should not be a problem because I have this setup at work (with
an ISA system, though).

>>Please help,
Thanks for your info, anyway,

Norbert.

This time I would like to thank Julian Elischer for his continuing effort
to provide us with the new scsi-drivers. And his assistance he gave
me for setting this up.
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Fujitsu drives are HOT !!!
Keywords: fujitsu
Date: 6 Sep 92 11:22:04 GMT
Organization: cic

marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.134359.7225@picard.agames.com> yaturner@picard.agames.com (D'arc Angel) writes:
>>
>>I have a full size Fujitsu drive and you could fry an egg on it (well not
>>quite that bad, but HOT). So I call up a friend of mine that works at the
>>Fujitsu Disk Drive Division and he confirmed that it's normal for them to
>>run that hot. So I make sure that my drive is directly in front of the
>>power supply to get the maximum air flow, and make sure you're fan is
>>always working. 

>No, you hope the fan is always working! When I had a system with only one
>Micropolis 337MB I had the fan die, when I came home from work I thought the
>computer had died because it was so quite in the room. I removed the drive
>because it was so hot, and it was literally 'too hot to handle' and I ended up
>wrapping it in newspaper so I would not burn my hands (it felt like a too
>hot cup of coffee in a stoneware coffee cup,) and placed it outside in my
>truck where it was 40 or 50F.  It is a year later and the drive works fine.
>And I now have two 337MB and a Fuji 600MB drive. I still worry about a fan
>going out and I remember an old Olivetti that had some type of power
>interrupter installed on the 110V line before the power supply.  Does anyone
>know of a device that will remove the power to a system if the internal
>temperature rises about a certain amount and will not reset until it goes
>below another value?

I had a similar experience, except it was one of several fans going down,
so I didn't notice. The power supply died, but not the Fujitsu 2624 it was
powering. I replaced it, only to have it die again. *Then* i noticed the
fan wasn't working. The drive is still working OK (knock on wood).
Now I know why fans are normally mounted near the power supply ;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: Can it go any faster?
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:19:16 GMT

In article <cefAFGK00WB5R4Mlga@andrew.cmu.edu> km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ke-Wei Ma) writes:
> 
>     I have a AHA-1542B and a Maxtor LXT-213S in my 486 EISA box.  I
> noticed that my system seems to read sometimes slower than a similar
> system reading the same files with an IDE drive.  I assume that I've
> been doing something wrong.
>     On the board I have not changed any of the default jumpers.  I tried
> boosting the board to 10mhz but it crashed my system.  I don't run any
> of the ASPI drivers since I assume that is used for machines with more
> than one scsi drive.
>     Does anybody have any suggestions on improving the speed, by jumper
> or by driver?

Does the Maxtor drive have it's read-ahead cache/buffer enabled?
If not, you should enable it.  This is done via a mode page of the drive
and can be turned on/off via SCSICNTL
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: Q10106@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Kent Norman)
Subject: let me know
Organization: Motorola
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:09:37 CDT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
From: jegm@cody.esd.sgi.com (Jim Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: NEC CDR-84, Adaptec AHA1522 summary
Keywords: CROM NEC ADAPTEC
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:48:21 GMT
Reply-To: jegm@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

he will check it out for me on an "approved" configuration. I will post the
results when I get them. I have heard reports of other CDROMs being
incompatible with the CDR-84/74 series.

Thanks

--
Jim Morris, Email: jegm@esd.sgi.com  Voice: (415) 390-5136

Please let me know when you find out.
Thank You
knorman@mcdmail1.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com


Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren)
Subject: Re: Ordinary DAT vs. "data grade" DAT
Organization: Oy Atomica Ab, ESBO, FINLAND
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 12:24:49 GMT

yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) writes:

>Greetings,

>Is there any difference between ordinary, for-music DAT
>(Digital Audio tape) and those expensive "data grade" DAT for
>storing backup data?

>Can I use for-music DAT for storing data _safely_?

>Any comments and information welcome.

	Definitely not, you will get data errors by using
	audio-tapes. Look for the DDS sign on the tape, then
	you can be sure that the your data is safe.


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Subject: Re: SCSI devices work on SCSI-2 port?
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:59:48 GMT

In article <Bu9zIo.InG@unx.sas.com> sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com writes:
>
>In article, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>>Rich Chong <U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>>Quick question... If I purchase a system with a SCSI-2 controller
>>>and harddisk (fujitsu M2624FA), will I have any problems using
>>>older SCSI devices chained onto the same controller? Like a
>>>Bernoulli Transportable or any old SCSI DAT tapedrive? Thanks
>>*----
>>There's no inherent reason you can't have SCSI and SCSI-2 devices
>>co-existing on the same bus.  Of course, some primitive "SCSI"
>>devices may not work with your setup in any case (like the
>>Adaptec ACB-4000 or Xebec SA1410 SCSI-ST506 adapters).
>>
>
>I think Mike is mistaken.  SCSI and SCSI-2 are two completely different
>pin outs.  Just to make sure we are comparing apples with apples,
>I am referring to "Single-ended (SCSI) vs. Double-ended (SCSI-2).

Both SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 support single-ended and differential buses.
You can't mix single-ended and differential SCSI targets on the same
chain. SCSI-2 added some new connectors, but they carefully allowed
SCSI-1 targets on a SCSI-2 chain. For 16 and 32 bits wide transfers
they added a connector (B-cable). As long as you can connect a SCSI-1
target to a SCSI-2 initiator, they should be able to talk to each
other. For Fast and Wide SCSI, you need to send messages, which the
other side may reject and continue in a SCSI-1 manner.

>SCSI and SCSI-2 also required separate resistive terminators.  You
>cannot intermix them.

You can mix the two alternative ways of terminating the bus.
Termination means creating an impedance at the end of a cable. How
you do it doesn't really matter.

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Low Voltage on Pin 38
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:35:10 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One

In article <1992Sep14.142722.22352@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=In article <zappe.716415197@tubue> zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe) writes:
==To avoid electrical reflections, the SCSI-cable has to be "term"inated
==with resistors, which are pulled up to a positive voltage at pin 38.
==The only purpose of this pin 38 is just to 'drive' the resistors
==(TERMimator PoWeR). So it doesn't matter if the voltage sinks down.
==If you don't fear, try to drive a LED too. But more, I think is
==impossible.
=
=Wouldn't it be more likely that each data pin in the cable has a
=resistor between it and pin 38, and that pin 38 would have +5V on it
=from the power supply? I think that's the usual way lines are terminated.
=
==PS: Pay attention that there are only resistors at the physical end of
==the SCSI-cable. Most SCSI-drives come with resistors installed. If you
==connect more than 1 device, you'll have to remove all of the resistors
==EXCEPT those of the LAST drive.
=
=This device, a WangDAT tape drive, has a second SCSI connector and it
=has the terminator plugged in. (I should check the continuity of that
=connector.) The thing I'm hooking up is a PC-parallel-port-to-SCSI
=adapter, that will drive a SCSI device through the parallel port of a PC.

The answer is that the WangDAT, by default, does not supply 5V to pin
38, but by jumpering two pins, it can be made to do so.

Pete
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: SCSI devices work on SCSI-2 port?
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:15:43 GMT

In article <Bu9zIo.InG@unx.sas.com> sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com writes:
> 
> In article, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
> >Rich Chong <U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> >>Quick question... If I purchase a system with a SCSI-2 controller
> >>and harddisk (fujitsu M2624FA), will I have any problems using
> >>older SCSI devices chained onto the same controller? Like a
> >>Bernoulli Transportable or any old SCSI DAT tapedrive? Thanks
> >*----
> >There's no inherent reason you can't have SCSI and SCSI-2 devices
> >co-existing on the same bus.  Of course, some primitive "SCSI"
> >devices may not work with your setup in any case (like the
> >Adaptec ACB-4000 or Xebec SA1410 SCSI-ST506 adapters).
> >
> 
> I think Mike is mistaken.  SCSI and SCSI-2 are two completely different
> pin outs.  Just to make sure we are comparing apples with apples,
> I am referring to "Single-ended (SCSI) vs. Double-ended (SCSI-2).
> 
> On a single-ended SCSI chain, half the pins are tied to signal ground.
> Not so with SCSI-2.  The normally grounded signals are passed through
> inverters, which has the effect of doubling the signal on each pair of
> signal on the bus.  This has the added result of allowing longer bus runs.
> 
> SCSI and SCSI-2 also required separate resistive terminators.  You
> cannot intermix them.
> 
> Have I missed something here?  Perhaps Mike is referring to something
> in the SCSI world that I am not familiar with.  If SCSI-2 equals double
> ended SCSI then Mike is wrong.  Otherwise, I'm sure someone will explain
> how fast I need to return to school =-).

There are no electrical differences between SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 until you
get into the wide SCSI-2 bus and even that architecture allows you to
have 8 bit and 16 bit devices on the same cable.  The only termination
differences come into single-ended vs differential or passive vs active.
And even the active termination spec'd in SCSI-2 is backward compatible
with the passive termination of SCSI-1.  But to keep things on the up
and up, the active termination scheme is an option in SCSI-2, like so
many other things.
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mats.astrom@neurofys.uu.se (Mats Astrom)
Subject: Adaptec Email-address ???
Organization: Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Uppsala
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:32:21 GMT

The subject line has it all .....


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fax: +46 18 55 11 32                  University Hospital
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
Subject: Re: ST1096N
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:25:03 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: Jumperbelegung

Duhh... Forgot to make this a world distribution

In article <1992Sep10.222013.23293@watson.ibm.com>, sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
|> In article <bkappler.716140241@lilly>, bkappler@lilly.gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Kappler) writes:
|> |> Hilfe!!!
|> |> 
|> |> Wer kennt die Jumperbelegung fuer die Seagate Festplatte ST1096N???
|> |> 
|> |> Die 3 Jumper fuer die SCSI ID sind klar, aber die 2 anderen Jumper? 
|> [English mode on]
|> 
|> The two other jumpers are most likely for SCSI Bus Parity Checking  and the 
|> Spinup Delay Option or maybe the Start Command Option 
|> 
|> The Spinup Delay Option allows the drive to either spin up now or (SCSI-ID * 10)
|> seconds from now.
|> 
|> The Start Command Option will delay spinup until START UNIT is sent to the 
|> drive (most Amigas/Macs/PCs don't do this)
|> 
|> Tschuss...
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: kr@asacsg.mh.nl (Koos Remigius)
Subject: Re: Wanted: info about ST157N
Organization: ASAC Nederland b.v.
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 08:39:36 GMT

nkumamot@ss.titech.ac.jp (Norichika Kumamoto) writes:
: Hello!!
: 
: I have a junk SCSI hard drive Seagate ST157N. But, I have no
: information about it. I'd like to add it to my computer. Please tell
: me the information : the number of heads, cylinders, sectors, etc. I
: apreciate any information.
: 
: Thanks in advance,
: --
: Norichika Kumamoto
: Department of Electrical and Electronic Eng., Faculty of Engineering,
: Tokyo Institute of Technology
: e-mail:nkumamot@ss.titech.ac.jp

 
	The product manuals states:

		Cylinders :	615.
		Heads :		  6.
		Sectors:	 44.

	Withe the drive upside down, connectors faing you,
	there is a small jumper block at the right side of the PCB.

          N
		P C 1 2 4
		: : : : :
-----------------------

	P means Parity enabled when jumper is in.
	NC ==> Not Connected.
	1,2,4 ==> Binary SCSI-ID.


	Cheers,

		Koos
	

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.intel
From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: EISA vs. ISA - which is better?
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:24:39 GMT

sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
: 
: I'm buying my first PC and I'm completely ignorant and/or baffled
: as to which path to take as it relates to EISA or ISA bus systems.

Since this is your first purchase, you may not aware that prices had dropped
by 50% at the same performance, performance has increased 300% at the same 
price in just 1.5 years.

: 
: One thing to consider is that I currently own two Maxtor 280MB SCSI
: hard disk drives.  An EISA system would allow me to utilize them.
: An ISA system would require me to purchase an additional SCSI controller.
: EISA system appear to be about $1000 more than the equivalent ISA
: machine.  More like $700 more if I consider the fact that the SCSI
: controller already comes with the EISA option.
	I recommend that you buy ISA system. You can save $700.
I guess the ISA SCSI controller can keep up with your Maxtor 280MB SCSI easily.
Try to get the Adaptec 1542 which is more universally supported.

: 
: In case it's not obvious, let's assume that I don't know one system
: from the other =-).  What considerations and facts do I need to know in
: order to make an informed choice between EISA or ISA?  I don't consider
: the $$$$ to be the number one factor in the decision.  It does matter,
: it's just not the most important thing.  I want to buy a system that will
: hold it's value (to me and possibly to others in the future).
There is no such thing as a PC holding its value. It will surely depreciate
faster than you can even utilise it. Unless you are a really heavy user in
industry e.g.
	The best consideration is whether you need the performance.
	This depends on your software. If you use windows 3.1, then you may
find it worthwhile to invest in S3 base graphic cards. It will save you a lot
of frustrations. Use the $700 here.
	If you use DBMS, then use $700 to invest in RAM  and allocate some
of the RAM as RAM disk. At $30 per meg, you can get 23 meg. ISA motherboards
should be able to support at least 32Mbyte on board. Never request the plugon
memory boards. They are much slower and more expensive.
	SCSI or not, it will never keep up with RAM.
: 
: You may reply directly to me or post and start a thread.  I'm sure others
: would be interested in the wisdom of the NET.  Thanks for taking time to
: assist me in making an informed choice.
I prefer to post because I'm sure I'm right or not.

--
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: Andrew.Jackson@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Jackson)
Subject: Adaptec 1522 & Always IN-2000 being used to determine sector size...
Keywords: sector SCSI
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:34:17 GMT

I have access to two host adapters that can be used to determine the sector
size of the drive attached to the ISA platform.  The Always IN-2000 reports
that the sector size is invalid and refuses to low level format the drive.
The Adaptec 1522 low level formats the drive to 512-byte sectors but does not
allow me to determine the original sector/block size.  What software may I
use to report the sector size with either host adapter ?  Also, what do I
have to do to format the drives at sector sizes from 256 to 2048 bytes.

Andrew Jackson
(919) 233-0216 voice
(919) 233-0409 fax

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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: What about Local bus (Was Re: EISA vs. ISA - which is better?)
Date: 10 Sep 1992 20:56:53 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

steibel@algol.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel) writes:

>non-486s have been de-emphasized by intel, and the AMD386/40 is the
>only motherboard looking good as far as 386s go.  I think its kind of
>pointless getting a 40Mhz local bus.  I assume most localbus cards
>operate in either 33MHz, or 50Mhz mode.  Thats just a guess though.

Any Unix system I use is IO-bound (this is a feature of my usage
patterns, but may apply for some others too).  This is particularly
true of weak processors like the 386.  Thus I would be extremely keen
to get good IO for the 386@40 (say).  It would benefit tremendously
from SCSI over localbus @ 33.

Apart from this, I think the 486 systems are a minor ripoff.  I would
stick with the high-end of cloned processors, and avoid anything
where Intel has a monopoly.  Thus the p5 is a terrible option from
my viewpoint.

        -ans.
-- 
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From: km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ke-Wei Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Can it go any faster?
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:18:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cefAFGK00WB5R4Mlga
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


    I have a AHA-1542B and a Maxtor LXT-213S in my 486 EISA box.  I
noticed that my system seems to read sometimes slower than a similar
system reading the same files with an IDE drive.  I assume that I've
been doing something wrong.
    On the board I have not changed any of the default jumpers.  I tried
boosting the board to 10mhz but it crashed my system.  I don't run any
of the ASPI drivers since I assume that is used for machines with more
than one scsi drive.
    Does anybody have any suggestions on improving the speed, by jumper
or by driver?

Ke-Wei
From: dtl@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dean Lindsay)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:07:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Anyone using a TEXCEL CDROM 5021/3021 with Adaptec 15xx?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi

Jim Morris asks about the Texel 3021/5021 CD-ROM drives:

  >If so, which ASW410 driver works with it, if any. Does it
  >support the Audio?
  >
  >Thanks
  >Jim

You picked up on of Centurian Surplus' drives, too, I
assume.  I have the 3201, but I am using the DTC 3280A
SCSI card and their ASPI CD-ROM drivers.  I have it
working.  It plays CD-audio discs just fine out the 
headphone jack on the front.  I have gotten it to work
with Windows 3.1 in a multimedia application that speaks
Spanish phrases with data across SCSI and into a PC
speaker driver.  The phrases are rather short, and I am
not certain that the data is delivered fast enough to
avoid breaks in the speech.  I think that I detect breaks
of 100msec or so occassionally in the longer phrases but 
I am not certain.  I have not had the drive running 
reliably long enough to be sure.

Maybe this helps to answer your question about the audio...

Dean Lindsay
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: leffler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Bob Leffler)
Subject: Looking for Opinions on Future Domain 1680
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:17:03 GMT


I'm looking for opinions on the FUture Domain 1680 scsi adapter.

After many months of attempting to deal with Adaptec Tech support, I'm
giving up on the 1542.

The Adaptec board works great under Esix.  No problems what so ever.
Unfortauntely, under dos on the same cpu, it's a no go....  
Whenever the aspi drive is loaded, there are a variety of symptoms
occur.

thanks,

bob