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From: gk@kksys.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Subject: Re: Source for 1542B
Organization: K and K Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:51:55 GMT

In article <1enf4jINNebi@morrow.stanford.edu> EP.MXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Maurice Green) writes:
>They specialize in peripherals, especially disks and adapters. Their
>advertised prices for Adaptek (from the latest Microtimes) are:
>     1522     16bit 7HD/2FD                $159
>     1542BK   16bit Bus Master 7HD/2FD     $259
>     1542B+   Kit with Corel SCSI          $329

If you are interested in buying the boards through a liquidation deal and
saving some money, we have the 1522 for $110, and the 1542A (yes, the A
revision, not the B revision) for $165.  The boards come with the standard
data sheet, but do not have any bundled drivers.
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From: mberhan@cup.portal.com (Mike D Berhan)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Cheating of Low Level Format by AHA-1542B
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:55:52 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

John Alsop writes:

>In article <guest.1.721505160@ncucs> guest@ncucs writes:
>>
>>   I have a Quantum LP105S connected to AHA-1542B.  When it comes with DOS
>>v5.0. they live a happy life, but once I install a 386BSD unix system and
>>now I will return to DOS, the disk still start the UNIX booting even I have
>>using the BIOS offset 0x0006 initialize the HD(it told me that it's a LOW-
>>LEVEL format!!!), fdisk and dos format.  That's to say the disklabel written
>>by UNIX still attatch in the disk!  
>>
>The LP105S (and possibly other Quantum drives) does not by default do a full
>low-level format when you send the SCSI format command.  To get the drive
>really formatted, you have to set one of the fields in one of the mode
>pages.  Not having the manual handy, that's all I can tell you for now.
>
>
>-- 
>John Alsop

From the Adaptec BBS (408) 945-7727, you can download SCSI_FMT.EXE.  It'll
format the Quantum drive (sends that custom MODE SELECT command you speak
of).

Mike Berhan
mberhan@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: westes@sti.com (Will Estes)
Subject: CorelSCSI Woes....
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:17:23 GMT

I'm experiencing one problem after another trying to get CorelSCSI to
work correctly, and would appreciate some advice if you have encountered
similar problems and have solutions.  Here are the problems:

1)	The only SCSI device on my system is an Archive DAT.  The
DOS-based Corel install utility doesn't find either CD-ROM or
WORM/Optical, so it tells me there is nothing on my system.  Should I
still try to use the ASPILS_D.SYS driver for purposes of enabling the
various Corel applications, or will I be fine allowing the tape backup
programs to just drive ASPI directly?

2)	The Windows install program, just like the CorelDRAW! 2.01
install program, sucks.  It complains that it doesn't have enough
memory, and this is on a 16 meg machine, with plenty of memory, plenty
of GDI, User, and Kernel segment space.  Give me a break Corel.  Why
can't you guys get the install programs right?  

My question is does anyone know what modifications need to be made to
win.ini or system.ini to enable the Corel applications under Windows?  

3)	None of the DOS utilities, such as CTBACKUP, work under Windows,
and none of them work after I exit from Windows.  This may be an
incompatibility with either Windows or my networking software
(ODI/NDIS/TCP/IPX/SPX) or networking card (SMC Elite 16) as well.  Has
anyone else had this problem? 

4)	CTBACKUP, the DOS backup utility, fails on a memory allocation error
while trying to restore *one* file.  The failure occurs when trying to
read through the thousands of subdirectories on my C: drive.  This is on
a DOS machine with 606K available.  This reminds me of Fastback 2.01,
which had the same sort of disastrous aborts on memory allocations
whenever it tried to gather together all the directory names.  Give me a
break, Corel!  

Is there any way to work around this?

I have heard good things about Corel's utilities, so I guess when they
work they work well.  But so far I am not impressed.

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: lps@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Lawrence P. Schnitzer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Seagate Tech Support
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:06:41 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo / CEDAR Research Group
Originator: lps@eniph.cs.buffalo.edu


In article <1992Nov17.004912.42689@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
|> Does anyone out there have the number of Seagate's tech support number?  I
|> have a used ST2383 SCSI drive that needs a new logic board.  The drive itself
|> is fine and in fact it is working right now in another machine with the board
|> from an identical drive put in its place.  I would like to get another logic
|> board for obvious reasons if at all possible.  Thanks.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Stacy John Behrens
|> *===)-------------

Try 408-438-8111.

-Larry
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
Subject: Re: Newbie Question - 4o M SCSI in a 386
Reply-To: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:18:10 GMT

In article <kf2JSSK00iV40586sF@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Kevin R. Bronke" <kb3e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> As the subject says, I just got a 40 Meg Quantum drive, originally set
|> up for a Mac.
|> I also have a Future Domain controller card and a 386 system.
|> 
|> How can I get my system to recognize the SCSI as a drive?

You need to change your setup CMOS to be "not present" for the drive,
since SCSI doesn't show up as any of the known drive types.  The
controller card has its own BIOS for the disk which also has the
format program on it.  This is one of the oddities of SCSI on
PC's.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: donyee@athena.mit.edu (Donald Yee)
Subject: EISA vs ISA vs VesaLB w/ or w/o cache?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:30:51 GMT

I tried to send this once, but messed up; it didn't show up here even,
so I'll try again.  Let me know if you've already seen this so I can
try and figure out what went wrong

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I've not seen this answer to this anywhere
lately: 

For a single user system running DOS/Windows, OS/2, and maybe Windows
NT in the future, is there ever an advantage to EISA or VESA Local Bus
over ISA, the latter either with or without cache?  Some devices (eg.
my Stacker coprocessor) don't like software disk caches, so I'm
looking into solutions which don't require software cache.  How about
cache on EISA or VESA LB boards? do they ever result in noticeably
improved performance in addition to the purported advantages of these
faster buses?

Second question is regarding support for widespread devices-  I've
heard that ASPI compliant cards with the Corel driver set is the way
to go.  Is this true?  Ideally, I'd like a card/software combination
that is fast, and can support lots of devices, including SCSI-2, old
SCSI, and maybe even FAST SCSI all mixed together.  Can this be done,
or is it just a pipe dream?  If it can be done, which cards are there
out there which have the above characteristics that you might
recommend?  Thanks.

don
(donyee@athena.mit.edu)


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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 on Sun IPX stores only 2GB!
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:32:30 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <BxKqns.7J9@portal.hq.videocart.com> mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews) writes:
<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?
<
<Does anybody have any ideas as to what's happening here?

Ya, RTFM!

The instructions for the drive tell you that the default device is 2.3 GB and
that the default device +8 is 5.0 GB.

So, to make 5.0 GB tapes rquires that you use /dev/rst8
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.os2.misc
From: vancamp@paxman.arc.nasa.gov (Warren Van Camp)
Subject: Adaptec 1542B at different address (in OS/2)
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:09:29 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way to use an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller
at an address other than the default (330) and still be completely supported
for OS/2 disks and tapes (something like the port switch in DOS)?  It turns
out that 330 conflicts with a MIDI controller, which has software that's not
easy to change.  I guess that if there is a way, it would also involve
updating the device support on my boot manager partition (which is not on
the SCSI disk)

Thanks for any ideas.

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NASA Science Internet Project Office
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mellema@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Garrelt Mellema)
Subject: DAT rescue
Keywords: DAT, EOT
Organization: CRI, institute for telecommunication and computerservices.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:31:01 GMT

Hello,

I have the following problem. By accident I started writing (with tar) at
the beginning of a DAt tape which already had several tar archives on it.
Is there any way of getting the tape positioned after the new end of tape
mark, so that I can access the data that is still on there somewhere?

Tar, tarx, mt, and dd will not let you do this. I have also tried to break off
a tar process to stop an end of tape being written, but this doesn't work
either: the error handling will always place two tapemarks and a EOT mark
at the end of the tar archive.

Are there any tools/tricks to position the tape beyond the EOT mark

Please mail me any suggestions.

Technical details: HP 9000/720, HP-UX8.05,
                   DAT: HP6400 1300S (devices /dev/rmt/0m[n])
                        (on the back it says model: C1512A)
                   and
                   DEC3100, Ultrix4.2
                   DAT: TLZ04 (devices /dev/(n)rmt4h) 

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From: apn@Apple.COM (Alex Novickis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Buslogic SCSI controllers
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:21:58 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Nov12.155817.15875@gumby.dsd.trw.com> lainhart@odel.stg.TRW.COM (Mike Lainhart) writes:
>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 installed a BusLogic EISA SCSI Host Adapter a few weeks ago.  I have
>a 330Mb drive and a CD-ROM connected to it and I am very happy with the
>speed.  If the Adaptec board that I had originally tried to use worked
>for me I could give you some speed comparison.   My decision to go with
>the BusLogic people (actually the decision was to definitely NOT go 
>with the Adaptec people) was strictly based on the horrid experience I
>had with the user support (rather the LACK of user support).
>
>I have posted here before about this so you might imagine that I feel
>strongly that shabby user support should be widely broadcast.  I only
>wish that others who had experienced the frustration (and expense in
>waiting on hold long distance to be ultimately promised a call back-
>that never came...) had warned me.  I could have been among the many
>people that were lucky enough to get a good board and I would be singing
>praises to Adaptec.  Maybe I'm better off.  I found out before I started
>depending on my SCSI Host Adapter that the Adaptec board does not have
>a reliable user support group to back it up.  The responsiveness of the
>BusLogic people has been fabulous.


Yep, I can agree with that, the support I've had from buslogic is great.
I originally intended to buy adaptec, but I could not even get a pre
sale question answered ( I always call tech support for a test drive before
a sale !) As it turns out the buslogic gizmachi is faster anyway, and
except for some companies that insist on wiring (legal sense) their products
to the adaptec (techmar, for example) is 100% compat.



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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 on Sun IPX stores only 2GB!
Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:08:50 GMT

Guy Harris (guy@Auspex.COM) wrote:
: (In Auspex releases 1.4 and later, we don't use that crappy old Bell
: Labs naming convention for tape densities, as we can really have a tape
: in slot 8, and "/dev/rast8" should be that tape; instead, "/dev/rastN" is
: the drive in slot N in high-density mode, and "/dev/rastNlo" is the
: drive in slot N in low-density mode, so you're more likely to get
: high-density mode by default than you are with the
: "/dev/rst0"/"/dev/rst8" convention, which may explain why he had better
: luck on his Auspex - although, given that current releases don't have
: the 4.1.2 code in question, I'd be surprised if he got >2GB on a tape on
: an Auspex.)

I would be really suprised (and impressed in a negative way) if sun had
hardcoded the filenames into the density selecting code.  I would
presume that it is based on the minor number, in which case, there
should be nothing to prevent someone from simply adding whatever names
they choose for their tape drives; including the /dev/rast0 or
/dev/rast0lo names, for example.

Of course, it probably won't affect the way the tape is written... (:-)

derek
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From: dalew@twiki.UUCP (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Ultrastor 14F SCSI Host Adapter
Summary: Bus mastering mode
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:13:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: twiki.95uJuB1w165w
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA


    I recently got and installed a brand new Ultrastor 14F SCSI host
adapter (ISA bus) in my 40 Mhz 386 to replace the Always Technology IN-2000
I've been using.

    I seem to be having some sort of SCSI termination problem that has been
causing my system to lock up at various times during hard disk access.  The
devices I have (in physical order) are:

    Archive Viper 2150S tape drive (ID 6)
    Maxstor LXT213SY hard drive (ID 0)
    Maxstor LXT340SY hard drive (ID 1)

    I can't find any information on how to set the termination on the hard
drives, and the tape unit doesn't have any as far as I can tell.  I suspect
the problem is that I don't have the hard drives set for the proper
termination.  If I am reading the Ultrastor manual correctly, I should NOT
have the LXT213SY terminated, but SHOULD have the LXT340SY terminated.

    My former IN-2000 adapter didn't seem to care about SCSI termination
and worked fine even with the tape drive at the end of the chain.  Any
assistance in fixing this problem would be appreciated.

    I have been wanting to install the SLS release of Linux here, but pl1
won't even see the Ultrastor 14F even though it is explicitly supported.  I
also have not been able to get OS/2 2.0 installed with the 14F in bus
mastering mode even though I can get it installed in WD1003 compatibility
mode.  I didn't get the 14F so I could run in in slow mode though...  ;-)

    Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: DMA Speed For Adaptec 1542B SCSI 
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 15:10:10 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <BxL4rr.Grp@sti.com> westes@sti.com writes:

  > According to my 1542B manual, you can set the default DMA transfer speed
  > between 5 and 8 MB/s.  What's the fastest that you can safely set this
  > to on an ISA machine?

It totally depends on your machine. Some allow 10MHz, some 6.7, some
only 5MHz.

The BIOS ROM contains a DMA test routine (at xxxx:000C if I remember
correctly). If this test fails at a given speed, you cannot use this
speed (you'd better boot from floppy to run the test). If it succeeds,
you are on your own - on my system, the test succeeds at 6.7MHz but the
filesystem crashes when the adapter is actually used at 6.7MHz.

		Gruss, Andreas Kaiser
  
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: moorhouse@skyfox.usask.ca
Subject: Maxtor 800 WORM Drive
Organization: Miskatonic University.  Arkham, Mass.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:20:20 GMT

I have a Zenith 486/25E and a Maxtor 800 WORM Drive.  First of all, is anyone
familiar with the Maxtor 800 drive.  I received it as a chunk of hardware
without any software or even any manuals.  The Zenith 486 has an internal
SCSI port, but the guy I called at Zenith said it was only designed for
the Zenith tape backup drive.  What gives?  Does anyone know of a card or
software that I can use to get this WORM drive working with my computer?

Peter Moorhouse
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK CANADA
moorhouse@skycat.usask.ca
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren)
Subject: Re: Micropolis drive a dog?
Organization: Oy Atomica Ab, ESBO, FINLAND
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:51:12 GMT

filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti) writes:

>Hi Everybody!

>We recently purchased a Micropolis 2912 2Gb hard drive
>and installed if for use on our NeXT Cube.  I ran a small

	Tell me more about this drive. We are selling Micropolis here in Finland
	and I have never heard about this model ?

>performance tester, and found that the drive is
>absolutely SLOW!  Transfer rates for both read and writes
>were about 400 kb/s.  The internal HP drive in the cube is up
>around 700 kb/s.  Is there something wrong here?  Is there

	Did you try the raw transfer speed ie.
	"time dd if=/dev/rawddevice of=/dev/null bs=xx count = nnnn"

	The result from this can give you a clue if it is the filesystem
	that is badly configured or if the problem is the drive itself. I can assure
	you that the Micropolis drives can be positioned in the absolute top when
	transfer speed is concerned. (Compared of course to other drives of
	the same generation)

>possibly something wrong in the way the drive is
>configured?  The drive has a 14ms seek time... 

	I still wonder if this really is a Micropolis drive ?


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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 programming question.
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:33:01 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

while not responding to your direct question, i would suggest you
consider performing a test unit ready by target/lun rather than inquiry.
keep a track of responding units and only issue them an inquiry.

inquiry entails a data xfer phase, the test unit ready doesnt.
as such it is better suited for boot time device presence inquiry.

just a thought...

jack...
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs.printers
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: SCSI Printers
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:58:57 GMT



In article <1992Nov16.083401.1661@ica.philips.nl> adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) writes:

   In article <BxsI3M.2FC@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
   >I'm interested in finding out about how printers operate over the SCSI
   >bus. I'm not talking about the use of SCSI for a printer's own use
   >(i.e. to support a disk for font and image storage) but as the main
   >interface to the printer. The only SCSI connected printer device's
   >that I know anything about use SCSI to transfer rasters (framebuffers)
   >from the RIP to the print engine. Is anyone aware of other uses of
   >SCSI in printers? For example are there any PostScript printers out
   >there that use SCSI as the main interface.

   I've designed, built and programmed a SCSI-to-Centronics converter to
   connect an HPLJ IIIp to my SparcStation IPC (which has no standard
   parallel printer port). I used  the standard SCSI WRITE command (10) to
   send blocks of printer bytes (PCL 5 commands) to the converter. I used
   a 2 bytes byte counter in stead of a one byte block counter.

   Later, after getting the SCSI-2 specs, I saw that they also implemented
   the WRITE command to send bytes to the SCSI printer. Check SCSI-2 if
   you want to use SCSI printers.

The problem with the SCSI-2 spec for printers is that it was made for
more or less what you did: connecting serial or paralell printers to a
controller on the SCSI bus.  It wasn't made for laser printers or
postscript printers.

The spec Adaptec is pushing was made for this but even it is too
limited to be of much use outside a generic laser printer right now.

   BTW. The Sun (Apple) LaserWriter 2SC (Carmel) doesn't conform at all to
   the SCSI-2 spec. I even doubt if it conforms to the SCSI-1 spec. If I
   ask the 2SC to do synchronous data transfers, it locks up the SCSI bus.

I am not familiar with this device but I assume they defined new
commands?  And the lock-up was just Apple's "special" interpretation
of synchronous SCSI.  When I see the words 'Apple' and 'SCSI' together
I automatically assume something unlike SCSI as it is known in the
real world.

jv

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