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From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
Subject: Re: ASPI for Future Domain?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:38:07 GMT

shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) writes:

>In article <1993Jan24.031847.26503@netcom.com> bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis) writes:
>>A recent Corel ad says that the SCSI drivers support a variety of interface 
>>adapters including Future Domain. I have the Corel SCSI drivers which were 
>>bundled with my Adaptec 1542b. It only seems to support the ASPI interface. 
>>Does anyone know if there is an ASPI driver for Future Domain boards? Is 
>>the Corel SCSI driver product that is available through retail capable 
>>of supporting a variety of interface boards, Future Domain in particular?

>Pioneer has developed an ASPI driver for Future Domain cards.  It was 
>designed for their CD-ROM drives, but it might work on other devices
>as well.  It's available via anonymous ftp as file pub/pc/aspipc.zip 
>at ccu.umanitoba.ca.

>>>> Dan
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Thanks for the info, but the filename is aspifd.zip, not aspipc.zip. 
I got it and it looks like just the thing I was searching for.


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (I. Barnett)
Subject: Adaptec 1542A with Toshiba XM2200A
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:45:22 GMT

A few years ago, I bought a Toshiba XM-2200A CD-ROM drive for my Macintosh.
Now, I want to use it with my PC.  I have an Adaptec 1542A host adapter
scsi card.  Does anyone know what drivers and/or software I need to use
this drive with my PC(386DX-33)?

Thanx, Darren King

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail)
Subject: Pioneer DRM-600 Upgrade comments?
Organization: Computer Using Educators of B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:54:13 GMT

I have a Pioneer DRM-600 (six disk CD-ROM changer).
I recently asked a retailer if there was an upgrade to the
DRM-604 (model # is something like that...) which is 
supposedly a lot faster (bigger buffer, double speed?).

Short answer was no, can't get there from here, but there is
some kind of an upgrade for the DRM-600 that improves its 
performance. He said it was about $200 and required the unit
be returned for a board swap or rom upgrade or something.

Does anyone have any details about this upgrade? The retailer
didn't know what effect it had, only that they had some
"happy customers."

I'd like to know what aspect of the performance is improved,
and if it would be better to sell the box and buy a DRM-604
instead. For all I know, it is a bug fix and doesn't speed
anything up.

Thanks for your time.

James MacPhail  jmacphai@cue.bc.ca  james@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca

P.S. Anyone want a 6 disk changer for their server/BBS?
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.scsi:6673 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:37015
From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:38:36 GMT
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Organization: Yeshiva University

I have just installed a new scsi II hard drive, a Micropolis 2112
3 1/2" one gig. drive on a Buslogic 747s EISA controller.

Most (not quite all) the bugs are out, however one thing worries me
somewhat. Every so often on intervals on the order of 20 to 30
minutes apart, (not too regular) there is a momentary sound from
the hard drive that lasts for about one second (by my reckoning)
and sound like the drive has been given a seek command. Is this
possible? (By the way, the above reffers to periods where the
computer has been switched on, but is otherwise idle during that
entire period, and not being used by someoneone at the keyboard.
The only thing happening is whatever internal loop Dos  does while
waiting at the Dos prompt, or Windows does while wating for some
user input.)

MY only other thought is that somehow, whatever vibrations exist in
the computer system, somehow get some resonance every 20 or 30
minutes from some loose element in the computer? Is this likely?
If that were the case, I think it would happen more frequently.

Anybody seen this before???
Is this potentially serious? Is there some line on the controller
card being improperly triggered every so often??

Thank you very much for the help.

Henry Manaster

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From: tl@etek.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:38:15 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

>Most (not quite all) the bugs are out, however one thing worries me
>somewhat. Every so often on intervals on the order of 20 to 30
>minutes apart, (not too regular) there is a momentary sound from
>the hard drive that lasts for about one second (by my reckoning)
>and sound like the drive has been given a seek command. Is this
>possible? (By the way, the above reffers to periods where the
>computer has been switched on, but is otherwise idle during that
>entire period, and not being used by someoneone at the keyboard.
>The only thing happening is whatever internal loop Dos  does while
>waiting at the Dos prompt, or Windows does while wating for some
>user input.)

Some (if not most) SCSI drives do things like that. You have to
remember that there is some intelligence in the disk, and it can do
things like that. Why it does that I'm not sure of, but there must be
a reason.
From: abs@ukc.ac.uk (Andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: NCR 53C710 SCSI I/O Processor
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:44:37 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


I am just about to program one of these devices at the register or 'SCSI
SCRIPTS' level and would like to talk to someone who has done this.

Thank you,

Andrew
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From: tener@cs.widener.edu (Stuart Tener)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: WD-7000 + Archive 2150S
Date: 24 Jan 1993 10:27:49 -0500
Organization: Widener University Department of Computer Science, Chester PA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.widener.edu

Hello there!

I am running a WD-7000FASST controller with an Archive 2150S. I have had
some problems doing backups at a friends location trying his Sytos Plus
software using the Columbia Data Products drivers. It seems that the
drive (or software) has a hard time determining the end of a tape!
Anyone else had any similiar problems? Any Suggestions?

thank you in advance.

stuart b. tener, N3GWG (N3GWG @ K3PGB on packet)
tener@cs.widener.edu
(215)-338-6005
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.scsi:6742 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:3115
From: jeffw@shakespyr.db.pyramid.com (Jeff Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Anyone Make a VESA-LB SCSI Adapter?
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:43:38 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Pyramid Technology, St. Louis, MO

In article <1993Jan26.201154.13137@netcom.com>, westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Now that VESA local bus clones are starting to come onto the market,
>does anyone make a VESA-LB compliant SCSI host adapter?  I am 
>particularly interested in finding one that does bus mastering and
>also works with Windows/NT.
>
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I just purcahsed an UltraStor 34F and a Micronics 486-DX2 66 motherboard. The
34F does do bus mastering, (transfers about 3.9 MB/sec on my system) and supports
drives larger than 1 GB.

I can't say about NT, as I have not taken the time to install it yet.


-jeffw 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: cmdorat@tc.fluke.COM (Richard Kowalsky)
Subject: Installing second SCSI drive...
Keywords: SCSI installing ST-02
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:44:52 GMT


Hi,  I am a SCSI novice and I decided to add a second SCSI drive to
a PC which already has a single SCSI drive in it.  The PC has a
ST-02 controller card in it and assuming that I correctly jumper the
second drive to respond to the next open SCSI address, do I need
any special software to format and/or partition the new scsi drive?

I did not get any software with either the original controller & drive
and I did not get any software with the second drive.  When I install
it, I can not format of "FDISK" it.  The system says "Unrecognized or
invallid device d:"

PS - During boot, the bios does report "2 scsi devices found", so I am
pretty comfortable taht they are jumpered correctly.

Thanks in advance for any help you can render.

Richard
(cmdorat@tc.fluke.com)


Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: multics@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (Multics)
Subject: SCSI, 1.7GB drives, ESIX 4.03A/linux/386BSD/Coherent
Keywords: SCSI installing ST-02
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:03:32 GMT

I have a project I'm working on where I'll need to put 2 or more 
1.7GB+ drives on a 486-33 ISA bus machine.  I'd like to have a 
single partition on the second drive for usenet news spool taking the 
entire drive.

I have a 'spare' 486-33 ISA bus machine I'll use for this.

I already have esix 4.03A, but I may end up sin linux, 386BSD  or
possibly coherent.  I'd like to know what controllers will work or
which won't work:)  I'm also planning on SCSI tape and would like
recommendations on that as wll.  I'll need 250MB or more per tape.
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From: mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Mark Simms)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP/Sun DAT compatibility
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:12:43 GMT
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK

>> I have a WangDAT drive attached to a Sun and in another office there's
>> an HP DAT drive attached to an HP-9000/730.  The drive on the Sun will
>> read the tapes it wrote, but not the HP tapes.  I haven't been able to
>> try the other direction.  Anyway, I'm using tar to read/write the
>> tapes, and when I try reading an HP tape on the Sun it gets the first
>> directory entry then dies with 'tar: read error: Invalid argument'.
>> (tar gives one other message before it gets the first directory entry:
>> 'tar: blocksize=1').

I have a suspicion that this might be an incompatibility relating to
the HP and Sun tape drivers rather than the DAT drives themselves.  HP
systems tend to write with large block sizes and Sun ones with small
block sizes.  When the Sun system attempts to read the tape written on
the HP system, it gets the first 512 bytes and then falls over with an
illegal length record.  This would explain why you get the first
directory entry.

The only way to overcome this that I know of is to write all
interchange tapes with 512 byte blocks.  I think this is the default
on the Sun.  The HP can be made to write such tapes using one of the
commands that follow:

	tar cvb 1 files
	tar cvf - files | dd of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=512

This causes tar to write the tape in 512 byte blocks which should then
be readable on the Sun.  It will also be much slower than using the
default block size of 10k.

You may be able to read a standard HP tape with 10k records by
specifying a blocking factor of 20 on the Sun.  This would be a better
approach, but I do not know if it will work.  This would require one
of the following commands:

	tar xvb 1 files
	dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=10k | tar cvf - files

Hope this helps.

Mark Simms

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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: strange and unusual devices on SCSI
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:47:59 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

you may want to talk to tom green at central data.
tomg@cd.com
they have built a scsi terminal server.
just fyi.

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From: cutter@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Dieste)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Help, need jumper settings for CONNER CP3540
Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:40:41 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Summary: connect an unnown SCSI -drive to a computer
Keywords: scsi cp3540 jumper

I need a little help with my CONNER CP3540 SCSI-harddisk.
I got this SCSI-drive from a friend and he lost the documnetation
for this drive. 
Now I tried to connect it to my new future domain SCSI-controller.
When I start my computer a starting message from the controller appears.
But it doesn't recognize the SCSI-drive (it tests the bus for at least
3 minutes).

I suppose the jumper setting on the drive isn't correct.
Maybe someone can help me.

Here are the unknown jumper/slot names:

J1: 11 slot (maybe for a resistor pack?)
J5: 2+4 jumper +1pin
E1-4: 4 jumper
E5: 1 jumper

For illustration I try to draw a picture:


!---------------------------------------------------------
!							S
!      oo						C
!      oo						S
!      oo						I
!      oo
!      oo <- What are these slots for?			b
!      oo						u
!      oo						s
!      oo
!      oo
!      oo
!      oo
-----!
===  !
===  !
     !							P
===  !							O
===  !							W
===  !					E E E E		E
===  !					1 2 3 4		R
---  !(only one pin)                    : : : :
-----!----------------------------------------------------

Thanx in advance

Carsten
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From: russ@psych.toronto.edu (Russell Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SMD to SCSI convertor
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:56:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: psych.1993Jan26.145914.25746
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

This may be a FAQ but I this is my first post to this
group. I have a SMD drive that I want to function
as a SCSI device. Is there an interface to do such
a thing? Please respond via e-mail because I will not be
reading this group. Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: sdavis@laforge.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Davis)
Subject: FAQ?
Organization: NASA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:57:38 GMT


Greetings...

  I've seen references to a comp.periphs.scsi FAQ file; does it exist?

Thanks...

Steve
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From: smyers.s@applelink.apple.com (Scott Smyers)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: (FAQ) Has the SCSI 2 draft been accepted?
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:54:38 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.


The SCSI-2 standard has not been accepted, and no, it is not likely to
change at this point.

Scott Smyers
Apple Computer
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: zhang@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Qian Zhang)
Subject: Quantum ProDrive 170S: help
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Dept. of VLSI-Design
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:19:42 GMT

Hi,

I got one Quantum ProDrive 170S but could not make it work. Here is what I
tried.

1. Install it as SCSI ID:1 and use it as a second drive. If I run the adaptec
1542A on-board BIOS utility with debug G=DC00:6, the dirve has been recognized
as SCSI ID:1 LUN:0. If I  select verify or format command, I get a error message
	
	SCSI Mode Selection Command	Error Code 0206

If I install aspi4dos.sys with /D option, the drive is also recognized and
the info is displayed on the screen. But DOS FDISK does not see the second
harddisk.

If I boot linux and do "fdisk /dev/sdb", I get the following error message:

	Dumping sense buffer: 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 10 0 0, 
	SCSI disk error: host 0 id 1 lun 0
	return code=18000000
	Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 2
	SCSI I/O error
	dev 0810 sector 0
	Unable to read /dev/sdb

2. Install the drive as the only one in the SCSI chain and boot from floppy.
The adaptec BIOS checks the disk for quite a while and (seems) give up.
After booting, I run DOS FDISK and it tells me no harddisk is installed.

I am sure that I installed terminators, SCSI IDs, and Parity Enable correctly 
in both cases.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Re: HELP!!! ACB-5500 and OMTI ASM 250 : Any information required -
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:41:32 GMT



In article <4892@seti.inria.fr> bdg@caril.inria.fr (Di-Gennaro) writes:

    Does anybody know the following (pressumed) SCSI adaptors :

    - ADAPTEC ACB-5500
    - OMTI ASM 250

    I'd like to know every kind of information about these
    two beast, for exemple :

	   - What kind of adaptor ( SCSI -> MFM ? )
	   - What are the jumper settings available,
	   - How much disk could they control,
	   - What type of disk ( # head, cylinder ... max),
	   - Type of hosts agreeing them
	   - Specifications non SCSI ( perhaps )
	   - All other information...


    All I personaly know of these two cards is : What they look like.


I don't remember the details but I have used the Omti cards before.
It used 2 floppy and two ST-506 MFM or ESDI disks and treated them as
logical units of the same SCSI device ID (the way SCSI was supposed to
work in the old days).

Unless you want to do a lot of SCSI programming yourself they are
probably not worth using for anything.  It required initializing a lot
of mode pages to set up the controller for each drive connected and
then the SCSI driver had to support the different LUNs.  The ones I
worked with (and the older Xebec controllers) were not SCSI-2.

Hope this helps,

jv

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine)
Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: 25 Jan 93 06:13:28 GMT

In <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:

>I have just installed a new scsi II hard drive, a Micropolis 2112
>3 1/2" one gig. drive on a Buslogic 747s EISA controller.

>Most (not quite all) the bugs are out, however one thing worries me
>somewhat. Every so often on intervals on the order of 20 to 30
>minutes apart, (not too regular) there is a momentary sound from
>the hard drive that lasts for about one second (by my reckoning)
>and sound like the drive has been given a seek command. Is this
>possible?

This is normal: most newer drives do this to avoid a stiction problem
first made famous in Quantum hard drives (the 40, 80 and 100MB Pro
Drive series).  It is not harmful, and only occasionally impinges upon
both the senses and performance of the drive (at least, my Fujitsu
seems to do it regardless of other disk operations in progress).


Paul

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From: martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Warning: WangDAT/HP-DAT incompatibility
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:53:52 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
NNTP-Posting-Host: alba.udac.uu.se
Summary: WangDAT can't read HP-DAT tapes
Keywords: DAT incompatibility

I was trying to move some software on DAT from one SUN with
a HP-35480A DAT and another SUN with a WangDAT-3200, but the
WangDAT wouldn't read what the HP-DAT had written. (Both DAT's
use compression)

The specific error message was:

tar: error: invalid parameter

To be sure I tried a few times writing again on the HP-DAT
and trying to read on the WangDAT, with the same result.

Yes, I tried with both HP DDS tapes and Sony DDS tapes.

Funny thing is that the HP-DAT can read what is written by
the WangDAT. So I guess you wouldn't want to move from
HP-DAT to WangDAT (if anyone made this work please contact
me).

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