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From: lum@dds4.uucp (Michael Lum)
Subject: Re: Adaptec suggestions
Keywords: adaptec
Organization: Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:33:23 GMT

Is the 1542C available, if not when will it be available (approximately)?
Will 1542B drivers work with it, especially in regards to OS/2 2.0?

Thanks for any information.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: clift@ml.csiro.au (Steve Clift)
Subject: How can I drive an Exabyte from a PC under MSDOS?
Keywords: PC, Exabyte, SCSI, MSDOS
Organization: CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart TAS, Australia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:48:11 GMT

Pardon me if this is a FAQ, but so far I've struck out on this one ...

I have a requirement to be able to read Exabyte tapes using a PC and my
own peculiar program under MSDOS.  The tapes will be generated on
another machine. Hardware-wise, this seems simple enough: buy a popular
SCSI controller and plug in an Exabyte drive.

Software support seems to be a problem.  I've asked some of the local
PC sales types about this, but they only know about disk <-> tape
backup programs.  Am I the only one in the world wanting to do this
sort of thing?

Ideally, what I would like is a set of routines which will allow me to
read/write/control the tape from C, preferably without resorting to
conversing directly with the SCSI controller.

Thanks in advance ...

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From: simon@kikel.Berkeley.EDU (B.Simon@frec.bull.fr)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Parallel SCSI driver
Keywords: driver, parallel
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:40:23 GMT
Reply-To: simon@kikel.Berkeley.EDU (B.Simon@frec.bull.fr)
Organization: BULL SA Echirolles FRANCE


Hi,

I am looking for any book or publication on parallel
device drivers.

Bertrand SIMON

B.Simon@frec.bull.fr
From: "jun hashimoto" <jun.hashimoto@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: 1542b & soundboard
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:35:51 EST
Reply-To: "jun hashimoto" <jun.hashimoto@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PC>I'm having a problem with a 1542b and a soundblaster pro board. The
PC>problem is that the machine will hang(requiring reboot) whenever the
PC>soundboard is used. Removing the 1542 card clears up the problem. I've
PC>checked the jumpers for the io port, irq and dma channels and they are
PC>different so I'm at a loss as to where the conflict is. The 1542b alwa
PC>performs flawlessly whether the soundboard card is present or not.
PC>I load the aspi4 driver low and have tried different combinations of
PC>switches to no avail.
PC>
PC>Has anyone gotten this combination to work?  Any insights are greatly
PC>appreciated.

Try to use 16bit DMA channel on AHA-1542B. 
Following configuration seems to work for me.

                Sound Blaster(not Pro)  AHA-1542B
I/O Add.        default                 default
IRQ             IRQ 5                   IRQ 12
DMA Channel     1 (default)             6

My boot drive is a ESDI. And I don't use ROM BIOS on AHA-1542B. Instead
of it, I'm using ASPI4DOS.SYS and ASPIDISK.SYS on my  486-33MHz system.

Hope this solve your problem.

--
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From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Fujitsu drives are HOT !!!
Keywords: fujitsu
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:31:25 GMT
Organization: mgse

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?

Thanks,
Mark Seiffert

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From: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: adaptec suggestions
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:11:53 EST
Reply-To: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:

>>  Device modules will never be free,
>>as of this writing.  Think about it,...  Engineers are not cheap and
>>don't work for nothing.  Either the software developed will be sold or
>>the price for developing the software will be bundled into the hardware.
>>Either way you pay for it.

It seems to me that Marketing had something to do with this.  Many PC
products that are hardware-centered require driver software to properly
operate, and USUALLY these drivers are included with the hardware.
Naturally, the product price is higher as it includes paying for the
effort required to write these drivers.  Now, it can be claimed that
the basic drivers are free on the BBS and that the higher performance,
more-featured drivers are an extra cost option.  Not helpful when a user
has 3 hard drives, a tape drive, and a CD-ROM.  With many other SCSI
boards, you just install all this on the bus and go.  With the Adaptec
product, the cost of the extra drivers is about equal to buying a
competitor's product, hardware and all!

I fell into this issue by taking the recommendation of a dealer and
buying the 1542b.  He turned out to be less than fully knowledgeable
on the subject when he insisted that ALL drivers were included with
the card.  In fact, he sold me just the bare card, not the kit!  Then
I found out how helpful Adaptec is to end users! (Although this does
appear to be slowly changing, to Adaptec's credit)

So I ended up buying a dead card from someone because they had the
entire kit version.  This was cheaper than buying the drivers, even
from Merisel.

Had I known then what I know now, I would have never gotten the 1542b.
I have recommended hardware for many systems since then, and have yet
to specify Adaptec products - not that they are all that bad, just that
when you factor in all the necessary drivers and the lack of tech support
for hair-pulling types of problems, the products aren't competitive
anymore.

(By the way, the bare 1542b street price is GREATER than a 486-33 mother-
board sans 486, yet the 1542b obviously costs much less to produce.  I
know mb prices are fiercely competitive, but are Adaptec's costs THAT
much higher, or is there a very large profit built in?  Maybe I should
buy a large chunk of stock and find out?)

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: peterw@DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Subject: FAQ? ASPI tar for the PC?
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:01:15 GMT

Any pointers on where I can get a tar for the PC that can read tapes
via ASPI?

Thanks..
-- 
Peter Wemm		peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au -or- peterw@DIALix.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: robrick@erenj.com (Robert Brickman)
Subject: SCSI/ESDI Controller Conflict
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering, New Jersey
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:50:44 GMT

I am having a problem installing a PLI QuickSCSI controller (Future Domain)
interface in an NEC 386/25 which uses a Western Digital WD1007-SE1 ESDI
controller and an NEC ESDI disk for its main storage. I want to install the
SCSI interface to attach an external magneto-optical drive but retain the
ESDI system for primary storage and system use. 

My problem is that while I can boot the system and the SCSI board runs its
own diagnostics, correctly identifies the external drive, the ESDI disk
boots and all seems fine, when I try to run the formatting software for the
SCSI disk, the system hangs as soon as it tries to look for all scsi
devices on the bus. Has anyone had a similar experience putting together
such a mixed system? As a counterpoint, I tried to install the SCSI board
and drive in a different system, a 386sx clone with an IDE drive subsystem,
and the scsi unit ran perfectly without any problems.

What do think are my best alternatives?

BTW,	the SCSI board can support an internal scsi drive. I could dump the
esdi system entirely and put a scsi hard disk inside but I wouldn't want to
do this unless absolutely necessary since this system is running a lab
analysis unit and its not clear how well the software tolerates changes in
the computer.

Thanks in advance.   

Robert Brickman
robrick@erenj.com
  - The opinions expressed here are my own and in no way reflect the
opinions,
policies or practices of my employer....
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Charles Yamasaki)
Subject: Re: 1542B and Maxtor 8760S
Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin.
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:38:31 GMT

In <Bu0vJ5.HA2@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Charles Yamasaki) writes:

>>I mention this tip here because I have a couple SCO systems with 4+
>>disks in each and the power-up makes the system freak-out if you hit all
>>the drives and the CPU at once (integrated UPS alarm goes off).  When I
>>set this delayed-spin option all is fine and it generally :-) spins-up
>>before the Adaptec controller comes-a-lookin' for it.  It really helped
>>me out.

>I tried this spin-up delay at one time (I don't remember if it
>was with ISC UNIX 3.2 2.2x or was it Dell SVR4) -- anyways -- the 
>machine would not come up

Yeah sorry, I should have been more clear.  I'm using an ALR MultiAccess
3000.  This is basically a Corollary architecture Multi-486 system with
an interesting twist.  The CPU is a tower system and slides into a
larger case with two additional power supplies and six extra drive bays
(full height).  Anyhow, because  the system is critical we have another
tower CPU with all the same hardware.  There are no internal drives in
the CPU and in case of system board or other usch failure we just remove
the tower case and slide in the other and that's it.

Anyhow, to make a long(er) story short.  The external drive power
supplies are switched and when I hit all of the switches at the same
time the controller can get there before the drive (0) has spun up. 
This can prevent the system from booting.  If I hit both drive power
switches, then wait a couple of seconds and hit the CPU power they
always come up just fine (more memory would probably solve the problem
by making the POST take longer, think I'll upgrade :-).

It won't do you much good, but you could try setting the delay, then go
into the ROM diags ASAP (before the disk controller gets a chance to
look for the disk if you can).  If you can get into the DIAGS screen,
wait a few secs before leaving and the spin-up should be complete. 
This, of course if just to see if it even works for you.  If it does
then maybe you could disable the delay on ID 0 and enable it on the
other drives.  I'm not sure if that would work either though.
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From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500C?
Date: 30 Aug 1992 20:03:47 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx

In article <1992Aug14.170014.18184@b11.b11.ingr.com> mcconnel@b11.b11.ingr.com (Guy McConnell) writes:
>In article <9297@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
>>Does anyone know when the Exabyte 8500C is actually going to ship? Its been
>>along time since it was announced.
>
>    And I've had one for a long time.  Got a couple of 8205s too!

	Hmmm.. That's strange. I talked to Exabyte about 2-3 weeks ago, and
they claim that the 8500C (that's 5G with compression) isn't ready and they're
working hard. They may have released some betas, but it sounded like the 8500G
wouldn't be ready for several more months.
	So I decided to go with a third party compression unit. I don't know
if it will be compression compatible with the eventual 8500C, most likely not,
but it does all the same stuff: compression ratios of 2-5, panel switch for
8200 and 8500 mode, sped-up transfer rates (curiously, Exabyte claimed that
the 8500C would be no faster. I don't understand this: same tape speed, with
data compression, should be faster effective data rate).
	The third party compression unit is Peripheral Vision, for about $500.


				Cheers,
				Dan Ts'o		212-327-7671
				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
				Rockefeller Univ.	...s5!rna!dan
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From: rogerb@pisco.esd.sgi.com (Roger Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: adaptec suggestions
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:15:23 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

On the line of bundling drivers with hardware, my thoughts are as follows:

With my 1542B Kit, I got hard disk drivers for Unix, Dos, Novell and OS2,
but not
CDROM or Tape drivers for any O/S.  I imagine there are few people who
would
be running all three of these O/S's on one machine (assuming you have only
one controller), so here I have all these drivers for O/S's that I don't
use.

Why not offer a kit for a particular O/S that has all the drivers for that
O/S
and nothing else.  If I am paying extra for the included drivers, why
should
I have to pay for an OS2 or Novell driver that I will never use?
From: wegrzyn@nic.cerf.net (Chuck Wegrzyn)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: NEC CDR-74/84 CDROM with Adaptec 152x (or 154x)?
Keywords: CDROM NEC SCSI ADAPTEC
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:01:07 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

I have just such a combination. The problem isn't in the 154X or
152X (I have the 1542B), it is in the NEC CD-74/84. It appears
that certain CDROMs can't be read by the NEC drive. They were
unaware of the problem until I reported it to them last week. I
was told that tye are working on it right this moment, but couldn't
tell me when a fix would be available.

One disk that does have this problem is the Battle Chess CDROM
version from Interplay. It works in every other drive type -- at
least the three I've tried -- but wouldn't work with the NEC. After
having talked to a few other people, there are other disks as well.

Chuck Wegrzyn..
From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Fujitsu drives are HOT !!!
Keywords: fujitsu
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:56:26 GMT
Organization: Harris Computers Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale,FL

All Fujitsu 5 1/4" & 3 1/2 drives I have experience with run hot, they run
for a long time though.  They are also louder than other drives, a Fuji 1
gig 5 1/4 sounds like a woodpecker.


  Mike

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  2101 W. Cypress Creek Road  Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 MS 143
  All opinions expressed are mine, not Harris Corporations.
From: gumby@motoman.pnl.gov (Jim Barbuscia SE Richland WA.)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI DRIVER-II
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:01:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Sep1.230108.28798
Reply-To: gumby@motoman.pnl.gov
Organization: Battelle Pacific N.W. Lab's


 (FORWARDED MESSAGE)
  
>From: d3a112@lazarus.pnl.gov (kd_steele)
>Reply-To: kd_steele@pnl.gov
>Organization: Pacific Northwest Labs
>Subject: SCSI Target device drivers for Sun
>Summary: 
>Keywords: 
>I need to find an example of a SCSI target device driver for a Sun 4. Any >examples for character or block devices would be appreciated. Our application >is for talking to a CAMAC controller on SCSI.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: oyang@cs.monash.edu.au (Kai Shing O'Yang)
Subject: How to set bus on/off time in ASPI4DOS?
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:47:07 GMT

Greetings,

When I use the gtar program on a Wren IV and tried to direct the output
of tar back to that drive, i always get a message in the top left corner
saying there is 'serious disk error' writing to that drive. The only way
out is to do a cold boot. 
I suspect this is due to the bus on/off time in my 1542B. Someone said it is
possible to adjust the bus on/off time in ASPI4DOS. I've lost my
manual so could someone please tell me how to set it and what is the
usual values?

Thanks in Advance,
Kai
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mbg@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (mitchell.b.germansky)
Subject: help with adaptec 1542b & archive 2150s
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:17:21 GMT
Keywords: adaptec 1542b archive 2150s tape


i installed a new archive viper 2150s tape drive in my pc with an
adaptec 1542 2 weeks ago.  all was fine until yesterday.  i did
successfully acces the tape with dos sytos plus & aspi/tar, and unix.

yesterday, when booting the adaptec bios did not see the unit.
if i put a tape in the unit, i hear the motor engage, but the led
does not light up and the tape does not move.  i have 2 scsi disks
on the bus and they're fine.

debug g=dc00:6 does not see the drive.  when a tape is in the unit
adaptec gets a scsi inquiry error.

sytos plus 1.21 can not rewind the drive - it hangs.

ctctrl.exe gets an error (i doubt this is related, but the drive
coincidentally stopped working shortly after i used ctctrl.exe and
tar.exe for the first time?!)

does anyone have any advice?

thx!!
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From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Anyone have hard info on xfer speed of Micropolis 1528 or Fujitsus?
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:09:02 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I'm in the market for several drives. My favorites are the Seagate Elites.
I've observed sustained rates of around 3.5 MB/sec from them.

However, I am curious about some other drives, since there is sometimes a
large price differential (and sometimes I don't need 1.3GB). In particular,
I'd like to know how fast the Micropolis 1528 is, and how fast the various
Fujitsus are (all of the 5.25" and 3.5" of 500MB capacity or more).

Please indicate how you obtained your figures. (Mine come from tests against
Macs and RS/6000s. In the Mac's case, using SCSI evaluator. In the IBM's,
a program that writes large chunks to the raw device.)

(If you happen to know where I can get some refurbed Elites, btw, I'd love to
hear about it...)

Email would be appreciated but I do read this group.

Thanks,
--
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PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
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From: wegrzyn@nic.cerf.net (Chuck Wegrzyn)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Windows ASPI DLL
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:53:49 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

Hello. I am putting the finishing touches on a DLL that will communicate
with the ASPI driver, of course, running with Windows 3.1. I am 
wondering if any one is interested in it? I would be more than happy
to release the source code, with the understanding that it has my
copyright and can't be used commercially or distributed commercially.

It is about a week away from being completed, and has been tested with
the Adaptec 1542B and the latest ASPI4DOS driver. It has the "standard"
set of commands such as device reset, adapter inquiry, and the like.
You can also issue SCSI commands directly from your windows program. I
am working on a port of the GNU Tar program to take advantage of
Windows, as well.

Let me know.

Chuck Wegrzyn

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: migieger@delos.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: DEC RZ24 + Adaptec COntroller + MSDOS
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:59:02 GMT
Organization: Delos Stuttgart, Germany

>
>Check to be sure that the drive is spinning up.  DEC drives do not spin up
>automatically on powerup.  To check this, simply pull the drive out, plug it
>into a live power adapter, and if you can hear it spin up (you will) then
>that's OK.  If it doesn't, then you will need to set the spinup NVRAM bit in
>the drive.  You will need some machine that can issue the SCSI command to do
>it, I don't believe that there is a jumper for this.
>
On DEC's Ultrix-boxes exists a utility (called rzdisk (?)) that performs
this task.
So, if possible (re-)install the drive in one of those computers and ...

Michael Giegerich



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From: kbm8572@rigel.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN)
Subject: Need to send message to william@convex.com (??)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Adaptec, drivers, scsi
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:10:00 GMT

	Sorry for posting this over the net, but my mailer royally sc***ed
the return address.  Please e-mail me regarding the drivers that you
sent.  

Thanks,
bryan

kbm8572@zeus.tamu.edu (VAX 9000)
bryan@aero15.tamu.edu (Sun 4/65)
(409)845-0714         (Panasonic Easa-Phone)
From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: 1542B Residual Length question
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:29:01 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

in looking at the tech ref i have, ccb opcodes 3 and 4
cause the adapter to update the data length fields (bytes 4 - 6)
with the actual byte transfer count(to the best of the controllers knowledge)
upon completion of the ccb. it does not get involved with bus timings.

if i am being unclear, let me know. sorry if i'm not telling you 
something useful. if you rephrase, i'll try again...

i write scsi drivers for svr3/4.

jack...
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