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From: younus@iona.uk.sun.com (Younus Nabi - Sandwiche Student - Tse Edinburgh)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec 1542b and emm386
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:59:01 GMT
Reply-To: younus@iona.uk.sun.com

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Greetings Gurus

I wonder if someone can enlighten me of my problem.

I have recently purchased an Adaptec 1422b controler and now any attempt to use emm386.exe or qemm386.sys fails. The programs WILL load up but any attempt to load a program high will hang the machine.  An always card was in place before and this worked without any problems.

Has anyone had this or a similar problem? I am desperate to get this working.
PLEASE HELP!

please reply by mail if at all possible and I will summerise.

Respect
Younus


Younus Nabi				younus.nabi@uk.sun.com
				younus.nabi@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jruss@ebers.in-berlin.de (Juergen Russ)
Subject: Q: How do I enable auto spinup on Seagate drive?
Organization: Private Site
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 10:24:37 GMT

Hello,

I have an old Seagate drive (model nr. 94221-209) with 90 MB capacity.
This drive was built in a computer with auto spinup disabled.
Now I want to build it in a SCO machine with an AHA 1542B.
The drive does not spin up.
Can someone please tell me either
a) how I can configure the host adapter to send a spinup command to
   the drive automagically
or
b) how to set the jumpers on the drive so it will spin up at power on.

Thanks

Juergen

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Berlin                    Juergen Russ                           Germany
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mmark@engin.umich.edu (Mark D Myran)
Subject: Low Cost SCSI Tape
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 22:16:03 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: mmark@fatha.engin.umich.edu


I have an idea for a product and wonder if there would be much interest.

The product would be as follows:
  120MB DC2000 SCSI Tape Drive 
  Retail around $500-600
  Possible hardware data compression for 250MB capacity
  Data rate 4.8MB/min (up to 9.6MB/min with data compression)
  Size about 1"x5"x7"

I would appreciate any email telling me what you think.  Make sure you let
me know what hardware platform and OS you're running.

Mark Myran - mmark@engin.umich.edu

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: root@maxed.amg.com (0000-Admin(0000))
Subject: Re: Buslogic SCSI controllers
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:45:26 GMT

In article <BxK6o8.16o@brunel.ac.uk> me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience of Buslogic SCSI controllers.
>I believe they are Adaptec clones - are they as good ?
>
>I need a SCSI controller to run a hard disk/tape drive/optical drive under
>OS/2 - has anyone tried these devices with a Buslogic. The card I have in mind
>is a BT-542B, which is supposed to be compatible with an Adaptec 1542B.
>
>The reason I'm asking is the Buslogic is quite a bit cheaper than an Adaptec,
>but I'm not sure whether the cheaper card will cause problems.
>
>Any help much appreciated.
>
>Paul

It is an excellent board, compatible in every way with the Adaptec, and
slightly faster.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Subject: Re: New DEC DSP5350 and DSP3160 SCSI drives
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:24:36 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: DEC  DSP  SCSI

earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
>Sydney also said he couldn't believe these list prices; for reference, I got
>them straight from the "Comdex Show Products" section of the November 5th issue
>of EDN magazine, page 25.  That's the prices the blurb quotes, don't look at
>me ...

They're list to OEMs, not you...

>Finally, a front-page article in last week's EE Times mentioned that Seagate
>has announced a 3 1/2" disk line called Barracuda, with 2.1 Gb formatted
>capacity (yow!), utilizing a 7200 rpm disk technology ... anyone know about
>pricing/date of availability?

Probably 9-12 months for quantity.

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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Problems with a Maxstor XT 8760 S SCSI drive ... help !!
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:24:03 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

you could locate a dos pc with an adaptec and neese's scsicntl.
then you could set the block size to 512 and reformat.
you might want to verify read ahead and caching are turned on too.

jack...
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From: mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Mark Simms)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:11:39 GMT
Subject: Re: HP 35470A DAT drive question
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi

>> "The capacity of a 90m cassette is 2 gigbytes, provided that streaming
>> operation is maintained throughout the writing activity."

This statement is a little misleading and is only really intended to
imply that there are circumstances when the capacity is less than 2
gigabytes.  A normal reposition whilst writing data will not lose
capacity.  Appending data to a tape will lose capacity on older
drives, although the latest ones ahve fixed this problem.  The host
telling the drive to flush data to tape will lose capacity.

Mark Simms

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statement by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: 1 GB 3.5" SCSI disks
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:25:20 GMT

In <1992Nov11.095839.4857@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger) writes:
>mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>>Just playing with a DEC DSP3105  (3.5", 1.05GB, quite silent except when
>>powered on...). DiskSpeed 4.2 shows on an outer partition:

>A3000, A2091 or what?

Oops.. I should think when editing the diskspeed results.. This is an
Amiga A3000/25MHz.

Regards,
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: Cheating of Low Level Format by AHA-1542B
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:10:03 GMT



In article <1992Nov12.133704.14021@htsa.aha.nl> edwarde@htsa.aha.nl (Edward van Egmond) writes:

   In article <BxK8JE.1xK@tegra.com> vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) writes:

   >
   >With SCSI the controller does not do the format, it merely sends a
   >command to the drive to format itself.  Most drives wil reformat
   >themselves when you send this command.  For some reason the Quantum
   >drives don't normally do this.
   >
   >With the LPS drive you need to set a bit in a vendor unique mode page.
   >Page 0x39 is "Quantum-Unique Drive-Control Parameters" and can be
   >written with this page data:
   >
   >	/* header	*/	0,0,0,0,
   >	/* page data: 	*/	0x39, 6, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
   >
   >The '8' sets a bit called FDPE or FILL DATA PATTERN ENABLED.  It
   >allows the drive to use byte 2 of the FORMAT UNIT command to fill the
   >drive with.  Otherwise the drive apparently ignores this.  I suppose
   >it is a lot faster than actually doing what you told it to.


   Is this also possible about a Seagate ST-4182N (SCSI) with a GVP-H2+
   controller, mine won't low-level format either.


I don't have the information on that drive with me but it will
probably be similar.  The details would most certainly be different as
the Quantum uses a vendor unique page to alter the behaviour.

jv

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: gibson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Stanley)
Subject: Re: New DEC DSP5350 and DSP3160 SCSI drives (was: Re: 1 GB 3.5" SCSI disks)
Keywords: DEC  DSP  SCSI
Reply-To: gibson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Stanley Gibson)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:05:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.200351.29178@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:

>I had found a 3rd party company that would sell me an external SCSI box with
>2 Maxtor 2112 3 1/2" 1.0 Gb drives, 

Hmm,  Someone may have their vendors mixed up. Micropolis makes a
3.5 inch 1GB model 2112. The Maxtor 3.5 1GB drive is the MXT1240.

About the DEC drives:
> Are they manufactured by DEC, or OEM'd?  (I presume the >former?)

These are manufactured by DEC. The 5.25 in built in Germany and the
3.5 is built in Colorado. Or is it the other way around?
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: WANTED: tips and driver code for 33C93A SCSI chip
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:19:09 GMT

In <rnpohrk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>when used properly, after you figure it out.  It has some noticeable
>slow spots compared to non-microcoded controllers, but overall, has
>excellent performance.

Yep.. unless someone with a slow microcontroller uses it in low-level
modes..

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Subject: Request info on Wangtek 5525ES
Keywords: Wangtek, 5525ES, QIC
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:15:38 GMT

Hi,

A brother of mine has been offered a second hand Wangtek 5525ES. I don't
know what kind of tape drive this is. Maybe someone can give me some
info on this tape drive.

Is this a QIC drive? If so, can it read/write 150MB QIC tapes? What kind
of tapes do you need to read/write 525MB? Can it be used on an Adaptec
AHA1540a (with ASPI4DOS and the SYTOS stuff)? On a SparcStation IPC?

Thanks on beforehand,

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: bar@rog1.rog.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Bartsch)
Subject: Mixing SCSI-1 & SCSI-2
Organization: Rogowski Institut a. d. RWTH Aachen
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:33:16 GMT

Is it possible to use SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 HDs together with a SCSI-2
controller ?
Concrete: We want to use 2 older WREN-SCSI-1-HDs and a new Micropolis
SCSI-2-HD in an EISA-System with a Mylex DNE710 SCSI-2 controller.
Will this work or can't we mix SCSI-1/2 ?

Thanks for your help !

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From: craigm@sequoiasequoia.com (Craig Maiman)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI-2 HD <--> SCSI-1 Cntlr OK???
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:58:22 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

The subject says it: Can I use a SCSI-2 Hard drive with a standard
SCSI controller (Seagate ST01)?  Do I need a special cable?

Thanks,

Craig
E-mail: craigm@sequoia.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: rpao@mts.mivj.ca.us (Roger C. Pao)
Subject: CorelSCSI for $60
Organization: MicroTech Software
Distribution: us
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:10:42 GMT


Someone a long time ago asked me where where to get CorelSCSI for
cheap.  I found a place in Santa Ana, CA which sold it for $59.06
called Ingram Micro.  I think the number is 800-456-8000, but I'm
not positive.

rp92

Sorry it's late, but it took me this long to fix my system so I could
send outgoing mail and news again.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ceg@bret.jpl.nasa.gov (Chuck Goodhart)
Subject: Re: Archive Viper 2150S
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Pasadena, CA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:55:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.154333.12713@city.cs>
lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>The usual story. I bought a pre-used Archive Viper 2150S SCSI tape
>streamer, but it has no documentation. I am trying to get it to
>work on an Amiga 3000. The most I can get it to do is move the
>head up and down and make a noise when I access it from HDBackup.
>I have set the correct scsi number (unit 2) in the relevant mount
>list.

I started with an Archive Viper 2060S and an Amiga 1000 and have
since upgraded to a 2150S and a 3000.

When I first started, I had symptoms much like you describe.  In fact,
any command that would attempt to spin the tape caused my system to
crash (and did NOT move the tape).  The problem turned out to be
not enough 12V power.  I had 2 hard disks sharing a single supply
with the tape (can't recall the rating, tho).

The 2060S needs 17.5 watts of 5V and 48 watts of 12V.  In contrast,
the 2150S only needs 5.25 watts of 5V and 19.8 watts of 12V.  My
present setup has the tape powered by a supply it shares with
nothing else!

I suggest you check your supply rating against your combined power
requirements.

>What else must I do?
>If I need the documentation, can anyone point me to where Archive
>or Viper is?

I got a "Viper SCSI Models 60S, 125S, and 150S 1/4-Inch Streaming
Cartridge Tape Drive Theory of Operation and Maintenance Manual" from
Maynard Electronics.  I can't find their address anymore, but I
can give you the Archive address from the back of the manual.  It is:

    ARCHIVE CORPORATION
    1650 Sunflower Avenue
    Costa Mesa, CA   92626
    (714) 641-0279 / Telex: 4722063
-- 
Chuck Goodhart, ceg@bret.jpl.nasa.gov
From: head@dorsai.com (Howard Pinsley)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Bad Block Reassignment
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:38:35 GMT
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

We are using Seagate SCSI drives (don't have the model number handy), Adaptek
controllers on a 486 running SCO Unix.  One of these drives has been reporting
read errors.

Is there any way to get these blocks into the "bad block table" so that they
are no longer used?  Seagate tells me to low level format the drive.  A
different, proportedly knowlegable source says that the format program will
not detect the bad blocks.  Adaptek has not gotten back to me.

Any advice would be appreciated.
-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Exabyte 8500 on Sun IPX stores only 2GB!
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:02:16 GMT

We have just installed an Exabyte 8500 5GB tape on a Sun IPX running
Sun OS 4.1.2. It's on the first SCSI bus, esp0 as Target 4, making it st0.

The problem:  It only stores 2GB!  Does Sun send something to the drive
that makes it go into a 8200 compatibility mode?

I get the following error from cpio as the backup script backps up the third hard
drive, at about 2GB into the tape:
cpio: Reached end of medium on output

We have a similar drive installed on our Auspex as ID 4, and it works fine with cpio.

This IPX has about 7GB of disk space with 2 - 2GB Seagates, 2 - 1GB Seagates, a 700MB
Maxtor and the 200MB internal SCSI drive as drives 1,2,3,4,5 and 0, SCSI IDs 1,2,0,5,6 and 3 respectively. Yes, I modified the config and made a new kernel to support all
these drives on the first bus.  I have a Sun SBus SCSI/ethernet adapter on the way
to take some of the disks.  Yes, I know an IPX is lousy server.  This one needs this
much disk space for some data processing that is done locally.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what's happening here?

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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mandrews@hq.videocart.com                                300 South Wacker Drive
Network Administrator                                    Chicago, IL 60606 USA
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Network Administrator                                    Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: edwarde@htsa.aha.nl (Edward van Egmond)
Subject: Seagate ST4182N Problems
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:38:37 GMT
Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute

I've got a st 4182N from Seagate, but it has 256 bytes per block
instead of the normal 512 bytes per block. Can I change it to 512 
bytes by low-levelformating? I own an Amiga 2000 with a GVP SCSI-
controller, but this controller can't change the 256 to 512, so
is it possible to change the nr. of bytes per block on a PC with 
a SCSI-controller? If there is anybody who has information about
the jumpersettings, please sent those to me. Some additional info
about the harddisk, it seems to have 155 Mb, MFG ID: CDC;ModelNR:94161-9;
REV LEVEL: 1203; Spec Supported: X3.131-1986;Max Cyl: 967; Max Head:9;
Sectors/Track:65.

Thanks in advance and please e-mail me.

	Eddie.
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I'm a schizophrenic and so am I.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: chjo@huldra.tdata.no (Christer Johansen)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b and emm386
Organization: Tandberg Data A/S, Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:57:52 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Younus Nabi - Sandwiche Student - Tse Edinburgh (younus@iona.uk.sun.com) wrote:
: Keywords: 
: 
: 
: Greetings Gurus
: 
: I wonder if someone can enlighten me of my problem.
: 
: I have recently purchased an Adaptec 1422b controler and now any attempt to use emm386.exe or qemm386.sys fails. The programs WILL load up but any attempt to load a program high will hang the machine.  An always card was in place before and this worked without any problems.
: 
: Has anyone had this or a similar problem? I am desperate to get this working.
: PLEASE HELP!
: 
: please reply by mail if at all possible and I will summerise.
: 
: Respect
: Younus
: 
: 
: Younus Nabi				younus.nabi@uk.sun.com
: 				younus.nabi@almac.co.uk

I had a similar problem with my AHA 1542b. The solution is to load the Adaptec device driver in config.sys.
My first line in config.sys reads:
DEVICE=C:\ADAPTEC\ASPI4DOS.SYS

That solved all my problems.

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From: jlutkus@hpunila.MSR.HP.COM (John Lutkus)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:11:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Any Utility To Test A DAT Drive Attached To Adaptec?
Organization: Hewlett Packard Sales, Naperville IL
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi

The Maxtor BBS has a utility called "MAXTEST" which enables you to
send any SCSI cmd(s) you desire to any target you desire. To use it
you should be familiar w/ SCSI command structure and have the SCSI
implementation document for the target. Great tool for low-level
SCSI hacking. Sorry, don't have Maxtor BBS # w/ me now.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Re: 1 GB 3.5" SCSI disks
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:39:35 GMT

mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>Just playing with a DEC DSP3105  (3.5", 1.05GB, quite silent except when
>powered on...). DiskSpeed 4.2 shows on an outer partition:

>Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
>Create file:       940863 bytes/sec  |  CPU Available: 65%
>Write to file:    1699686 bytes/sec  |  CPU Available: 75%
>Read from file:   3195287 bytes/sec  |  CPU Available: 64%
[...]

The DEC drives have a cache of 512 KB. What you have measured is the 
speed between the disc cache and the SCSI controller. Try this again
with a 1 MB read/write for usable results.

Adrian
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
Subject: Re: Any Utility To Test A DAT Drive Attached To Adaptec?
Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:50:06 GMT

In article <Bx9nsn.LHM@sti.com> westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Does anyone know of a utility that can be used to test a DAT drive
>attached to an Adaptec host adapter under MS-DOS?  Strangely enough, I
>am getting an Archive Python and neither Archive nor Sytron (makers of
>the Sytos tape back-up software) have a utility to just write a pattern
>to the tape and then read it back.  Pretty basic stuff...how am I
>supposed to test whether this thing works?  Is the only way to backup a
>200 meg disk 10 times and then do ten different file compares between
>each section of tape and the hard disk?  

We have a product called SCSI Navigator that does exactly what you want
(plus numerous other things).

If you'd like more information, give me a call or send me your fax # by e-mail.


-- 
John Alsop

Sea Change Corporation
6695 Millcreek Drive, Unit 8
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 5R8
Tel: 416-542-9484 Fax: 416-542-9479
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