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From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: BUSTEK drivers (or BBS #)?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:19:39 GMT
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Oct5.120904.16528@alf.uib.no>
THOGER@bg1.hbg.hydro.no (Terje Thoegersen) writes:

>I've got an HP 486 EISA with a Bustek 742 SCSI HA installed. I've got some
>DOS-based drivers / utils for this, but wondered about OS/2 support..
>
>Do you know where I can find OS/2 disk drivers and perhaps an ASPI driver?
>(No, I can't get the Adaptec ones to work..)
>
>If you have a BBS number, I'd be grateful..

The good news:

408-492-1984 Bustek BBS
408-492-9090 Bustek tech support

By the way, they've changed their name and are no longer called
"Bustek," but I can't recall the new name at the moment.

I called Bustek a couple of months ago to inquire about OS/2 support. At
that time they had beta OS/2 drivers that they were distributing (i.e.,
reasonably stable betas); they should be in regular distribution by now.

The bad news: 

When I inquired about ASPI drivers, they said they had no plans at all to
produce OS/2 ASPI drivers. I bought Adaptec.

--David

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From: jthjr@jthjr.austin.ibm.com (John Hollaway)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: ProAudio Spectrum-16 as SCSI card
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:25:21 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

If anybody has the TSCSI.SYS drivers for using the PAS-16 to drive a SCSI hard drive, could you please email (uuencoded) to me?  Also, if anybody has any comments about this setup, please let me know, as I haven't even bought the board yet!

Thanks...

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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:24:16 GMT

In <1992Oct1.041216.7128@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> berliner@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Brian Berliner) writes:
>I disagree.  Take a look at the specs for the Exabyte 8500 (5GB Exabyte
>tape drive).  I have measured a 1.25 minute average seek time to get to any
>random piece of data on the tape, regardless of whether you have a single
>5GB file on the tape or 2000 smaller files.

>How does DAT compare against these numbers?

DATs usually search only several seconds with about 90 seconds in the worst
case. In the average you are much faster.

>PS: The biggest drawback that the Exabytes have is that they take so darned
>long to get the tape spinning and to unload the tape.  This limits their
>usefulness when used with a heavily burdened robotics unit.  Once you get
>them spinning, though, they are indeed very *fast*.

Yes. I can fully agree here. That's why DATs are better for the more
interactive work.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: roman.yarish@rose.com (roman yarish)
Subject: Wanted SCSI Controlle
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 04:15:47 GMT
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Date Entered: 09-27-92 23:09
Wanted SCSI controller: AHA 1542 or IN-2000.

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Maximum SCSI cable length?  (Sun workstation & Disk)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 00:31:33 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <1247@falcon.is>, Bjorn R. Bjornsson writes:
> I've never met an SCSI interface that couldn't go the whole 6 meters.
> Faulty cables/connectors, yes.  Malfunctioning units screwing up the bus,
> yes.  But you can certainly have a 6 meter SCSI bus if the cables are
> good, functioning interfaces, adequate device spacing and proper
> termination.

What is "adequate device spacing"?


                                                Jim Pritchett


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: lvroche@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Joe Roche)
Subject: Software Mirroring
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  6 Oct 1992 10:15 EDT  

I am looking some tips on how to accomplish software mirroring using 
an Ultrastor Ultra 24f EISA SCSI Host adapter and Fujistu hard drives. 

Joe Roche lvroche@venus.lerc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm 
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:43:57 GMT

In <1992Sep29.002348.23855@leland.Stanford.EDU> phil@summit.stanford.edu (Phil Constantinou) writes:
>I am trying to decide which form of tape drive to buy.  I have heard
>different stories about DAT and 8mm drives.  I mangage a small LAN and
>am tired of 150 meg backup tapes.  Which drives are most cost effective
>and fastest.

Depends on what you need fastest. For fastest backup times the 8mm streamers
are better since they can sustain a higher transferrate. If you need to
search through your backups frequently then DATs are better.

Regards,
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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:45:05 GMT

In <1992Oct1.232024.9738@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>High DAT's start about where the low end 8mm's are.   
>Exabyte 8500's seem to leave scant change from 5 K$.

EXB8500's are less than $4k.

Regards,
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From: rowan@ocean.rutgers.edu (Andy Rowan)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HELP: setting scsi address on AT&T (HP) 9-track drive
Keywords: scsi address 9-track
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:40:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Thanks to all who responded to my post.  Everything is solved, and we
are happy again.  The tape drive is not so stupid after all, I just
didn't know where to look in the volumes of Fine Manuals.

Andy.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: u911661@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mad Mal)
Subject: NEED help with CD Rom on PC
Summary: HELP ....
Keywords: CD ROM HELP
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:05:13 GMT



I am seeking information on Disk Manager by On Track ... 

I am trying to get an Olivetti Worm drive with a Future Domain SCSI interface
to work under DOS 5.0 on a PC ....

It works perfectly under DOS 3.3 on the same machine .. but not 3.3 

And 3.3 will not allow large partition, greater than 32 meg not allowed from
memory ....

I have a need for this device in the very near future and the Olivetti people
down here are not doing a lot to help, so i am appealing for any information
at all that could help in this quest ...

NB i have tried the SETVER command, but obviously did not work ...

I await any and all replies ...

Mal.

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From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: SCSI Device Driver for SPARC
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:43:13 GMT

You might want to buy source code from SUN directly. I demanded SCSI
driver source as a prerequisite to buying SUNS (which I never did) about 4
years ago and secured a purchase price of $2000 for full source to a
working driver. If the "SBus Developer's Kit-II" is fully functional and
is as good as the normal drivers, then fine, just use the Kit, otherwise
scream at SUN, or buy a different computer system.

Bill Williams

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: rlynx@netcom.com (Roger Lynx)
Subject: U14F OS/2 BETA driver
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:08:56 GMT

Subject says it all.
Anybody got it working? My system stops with SYS2070 error, just before
loading WPS. BTW, 486DX2, 16MB, T8900C, worked with INT13 okay (but slow!!).
Any sugestions, ideas, comments? Thanks for any .
--rog
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: glowell@leland.Stanford.EDU (gary lowell)
Subject: Re: HP670S (model number?)
Keywords: HP Harddrives
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 01:29:57 GMT

HP does manufacture their own drives.  I have an HP 97556 677 Megabyte
drive in hand.  While it dosn't say HP in large letters anywhere, it
does have the HP part number and barcode on the side.  There are also
some HP labeled ASICS on the printed circuit board. 

HP does make a couple other drives with capacities around 670 MB. But 
they all have a similar look to them.  I wouldn't mistake them for a
Seagate.

Good luck,

Gary Lowell
glowell@allegro.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: gottsch@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Gert Gottschalk)
Subject: ASW410 v2.1
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: tub
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:08:58 GMT

Hi there !

I recently learned that Adaptec offers Version 2.1 of their ASW410 CD-ROM
Softwarepackage on their BBS. As one might understand it is difficult for me
from Germany to connect to them via telephone. Is there a possibility to
download this software from the net ????
Is there a friendly soul who has the upgrade and can mail it to me
(I hope this doesn't violate copyright ?) ?????

With many thanks in advance,


Gert Gottschalk

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From: stevedav@netcom.com (Steve Davidson)
Subject: Disk parameters for Sony SRD2040A
Keywords: SONY disk geometry
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:15:07 GMT

Can anyone tell me the disk geometry of a 

SONY SRD2040A SCSI hard disk.

Or, how can I find out what it is?

steved@cfcl.com

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:39:44 GMT

In <1992Sep29.172311.3867@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:

>3.  The difference in speed on streaming is fairly small  
>(~25%) 

If DAT technology didn't advance significantly in the last month this
is not true. 8mm does 500k/s streaming, DAT does 187k/s.

>4.  The media takes up less room for storage.

If you count the capacity this isn't true either. Of course some people
don't fill each tape to its capacity.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: SCSI bad sectors?
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:17:36 GMT

Johnathan Vail, you have made some serious mistakes in your rebuttal to my
charge that people, such as yourself, are doing a great diservice by
trying to
redefine the word Megabyte. In fact you are one of the extremely rare
people who
think that a Kilobyte is only 1000 bytes of memory storage.
 
 
For example you claim :
 
> Anyway, 10^6 = 1,000,000.  2^10 "kilobytes" = 1,024,000 or a difference of
> %2.4 or less than five blocks for a 100 "meg" disk.
 
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
 
Almost everything I have every read or heard my entire life uses the
definition
of a Kilobyte to be 2^10 bytes. 1024 bytes is a kilobyte, and a Megabyte of
storage is a Kilobyte * a Kilobyte (1024*1024). As you can see that makes the
definition of a Megabyte when computed correctly much more deviant than the
value you say you have utilized. In fact your error is actually almost
twice as
large, since a Megabyte (2^10 Kilobytes) is over 4.58% larger than one million
bytes, not 2.4% as you claim.
 
 
Also, 100 Megabytes of memory (2^10 Kilobytes) is not less than five blocks
difference when using your definition of megabyte. If the logical block
size is 512 bytes, 100 Megabytes of storage utilizes 
 
 
 A Megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes of storage. It has always been, and except from
people in the storage device businness who are motivated by greed, will always
be so to computer programmers.
 
 
Two products that I helped write for the Macintosh have sold hundreds of
thousands of copies and the definition of megabyte in them is the correct one.
In fact, if it was the greedy 4.58% inflated number, IT WOULD NOT MATCH THE
CALCULATIONS PRESENTED BY APPLE's FINDER. Please change your definition if
you would.
 
 
PS. you may have to use older OEM SCSI manuals because of a slight trend
by some companies to try and follow quantums lead by not using the phrase
"Megabyte" in their current manuals in hopes that greedy people won't get
caught and get shamed in the press.
 
 
For a serious peek at the spreading disease of inflated lies in specification
guides please refer to "sgil@netcom.com"'s recent post concerning his Sony
SDT-1000 claiming to hold nearly double what he believes it can store.
 
 
 
 
>"If this is not right I would be happy to be corrected."
 
Glad to help out.
 
 
 
 
Bill Williams
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Technical Training Seminars
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From: craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec SCSI to St-506 boards
Date: 30 Sep 92 05:55:16 GMT
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.32


Hi folks.
 
I have a couple of Miniscribe 3650's here that I used to use on a machine
that had an Adaptec 5500 SCSI to ST-506 board between the 3650's and the host
machine's SCSI port.
 
I sold that machine recently along with the Adaptec 5500 board, but as I am
not using the 3650's as my main drive (I'm using a SCSI Maxtor LXT-213) it's
not such a big hassle.
 
Anyway, I would like to hook up the 3650's to the new machine's SCSI port so I
can get some of the data off them, but without an Adaptec 5500 or equivalent 
this is a little difficult.
 
Does anyone know where I can get Adaptec 5500 boards from? I know of a few
places selling the older 4400 and 4470 boards, but they don't work too well with
the driver software I wrote specifically for the 5500. The place I originally
obtained my 5500 board from has disappeared, and no-one else seems to advertise
them.
 
Any help would be appreciated.
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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:22:24 GMT

In <1992Sep30.160937.14731@bnr.ca> Glenn Henshaw <thraxisp@bnr.ca> writes:
>  DAT speeds of 187k/s and 8mm at 480k/s were quoted later. DAT with
>compression
>  can run at up to 700k/s. The real key is how fast the host will run. My
>experience
>  is that 8mm drives have smaller buffers and are easily underrun on

Hmm. the 8mm units feature 1 Meg buffer and can run at about 2MB/s with
compression.. so what ?

But you are right, the real key is how fast the host will run. We
hardly manage to feed an EXB8500 fast enough to keep it streaming
when doing backups from a local disk. Backing up remote disks
is always too slow.

Regards,
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From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Subject: Re: DAT vs. 8mm
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:18:08 GMT

Sherwood Botsford:
>Peter Whittaker writes
>> In article <1992Sep29.172311.3867@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
>sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)  
>writes:
>> >1.  You can get two DAT drives for the price of 1 8mm.
>> 
>> And still get less capacity than that single 8mm drive.
>
>You're right.  But a dat tape holds a disk full of data.   

Depends on how big your disks are:  uncompressed DAT cannot hold a
concatenated partition, i.e. a la DiskSuite (Sun) or a la HP release
which will do the same.  Some of our users have 7GB partitions (most
don't!).

This isn't really a relevant argument, in any case.  A relevant
argument (for us) is that our servers tend to have 4GB of disk, which
fit nicely on an EXB-8500.

>> >3.  The difference in speed on streaming is fairly small (~25%) 
>> 
>> 480KB/s vs 187 KB/s works outo to 25%?  Since when?
>> 
>Sorry, Page 17 of Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm Cartridge Tape  
>Subsystem Product Specification (510005-006) states that  
>the 8200 has a sustained transfer rate of 246 KB/sec.  
>187/246 is .760163.  I don't think I'm being terribly  
>sloppy to call this about 25%

You're not.  But why compare with the EXB-8200, when the EXB-8500 is
the current technology?  

>> >4.  The media takes up less room for storage.
>> 
>> And stores less!  Funny, that!
>> 
>A DAT tape measures 3.1" x 2.62 x .31 = 2.5 cu inches.  At 
>1.3 Gb (Uncompressed, 60 m tape) that's 1.9 cuin/GB
>
>Ok, An Exabyte cartridge  has dimensions of 4" x 2.6 x .75
>That's 7.8 cu.in. At 2.2 GB/cartridge thats 3.5 cuin/GB

Comparing with an EXB-8500, assuming 4.5GB of storage (to be
safely conservative), we get 1.7cuin/GB.

Tit for tat.  :->

>> >5.  Exabytes do not have a reputation for reliability.   
>> >MTBF is nowhere near what is claimed.
>> 
>> 8mm works well for us.
>> 
>I said that too for the first year we had the Exabyte.  I'm  
>packaging mine up today to send back to Dilog for the  
>second time in 6 months.

We have several hundred, and they work well.  It sounds like your
reseller is the source of your problems....

>> P.S. I'm not endorsing 8mm over 4mm, but I can't stand to  
>see distortions
>>      presented as facts.
>
>I can agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly.  And your  
>comments pointed out where I had been less than clear.   
>Thankyou.

Likewise.

pww

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From: whunt@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (William Hunt)
Subject: Using ASPI with SCSI printer device
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:30:23 GMT


I am having trouble writing software to drive an OYO-612 thermal printer
with a SCSI interface through an Adaptec 1542b SCSI board under MS-DOS.
I am using the ASPI4DOS.SYS device driver, using the /D option which is 
supposed to list devices on the SCSI bus when the driver is installed. Upon
booting my machine, with the printer powered on and online, a message 
saying "No SCSI devices found" is printed, as well as one saying the 
driver was successfully installed.

My program, written in Microsoft C, so far successfully opens the ASPI
driver, obtains the entry point and makes a Host Adaptor Inquiry call 
to it. However, the first command I implemented which actually accesses
the SCSI bus, a device Inquiry using the ASPI Execute SCSI I/O command, 
returns with an error code of 0x11, indicating Selection timeout.

As a test, I plugged an Exabyte tape drive into the bus, using the same
cable and terminations.  On boot, the driver correctly identified the 
presence of the drive, and my program completed the Inquiry command with
no error.

This would seem to indicate a problem with the printer, except that it was
supplied with a demo program which is supposed to dump a sample image
to the printer.  It works fine, but only if the ASPI4DOS.SYS driver is
NOT installed !!!  If the driver is installed, the demo just hangs.  Calls
the OYO sales office failed to find anyone who could help, other than give
me the name of the third party contractor who wrote the demo program.  He
was fairly uncooperative, but did confirm that he did not use the driver,
but accessed the Adaptec hardware directly.  I don't have the documentation,
time or inclination to do this, since the ASPI interface seems to be a 
nice hardware independant way of accessing the SCSI bus.

Any ideas as to what the problem might be, and/or of ways around it,
would be much appreciated.



-- 
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Software Engineer		Memorial University of Newfoundland
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