HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley)
Subject: Archive Viper 150 tape for sale
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Distribution: us
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:39:56 GMT

	I have a new Archive Viper 150Mb SCSI tape drive for sale.
It is new except for me taking it out of it's package and
running it to insure that it works.

	I would like to get $350.00 or B.O.

	Peter Reilley
	work	(508) 967-7094
	home	(603) 880-9145

-- 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<<<
                     Well, that about says it.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b.  HEEELLLLPPPPPP!
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:55:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.211047.92407@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
> I recently purchased an Adaptec 1542B.  After several reformats of my drive,
> and disabling the parity checking in my system (not SCSI) BIOS, I have been
> able to achieve some functionality under DOS.  Not all programs will run
> properly, and many crash and burn shortly after boot up.  I want to install
> OS/2 but until I clear up these bugs, that will be impossible.
> 
> I have:
>         Adaptec 1542B SCSI card
>         Quantum 170MB SCSI drive
>         40 MHz 386 motherboard w/ AMI BIOS  (hi-flex version)
>         8 megs of RAM
>         Paradise Pro VGA card
>         Some other miscellaneous cards which are not currently in use.
>            (translation, can be removed)
> 
> I can get any technical info desired and would greatly appriciate any and all
> help.  Thanks.

Have you tried the bus master test located at dc00:9?  If this fails,
then the motherboard will not support an ISA bus master board.
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
			UUCP:	convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
			Inet:	neese%adaptex@cirr.com
Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date: Wednesday, 29 Jul 1992 11:30:38 MES
From: Julian F. Reschke <RESCHKE@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: CAM standard

I only recently heared about this standards project (or is it
finished now). The documents I have are from 1989/1990. Any pointers
to newer drafts?

___________________________ cut here _____________________________________
JULIAN F. RESCHKE, HENSENSTR. 142, D-W4400 MUENSTER
EMAIL: JULIAN@MATH.UNI-MUENSTER.DE, JR@MS.MAUS.DE
____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________
From: vg@sup.stollmann.de (Volkmar Grote)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SMD <==> SCSI interface?
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:55:59 GMT
Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D-2000 Hamburg 50, Germany

frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:

>Such things exist.  Highwater Technologies makes a specialized one for
>Hell SMD, so I am sure more general ones exist.  Not too much
>throughput, though.

Great! We have some GB of SMD drives catching dust.
Question: do you have any hint, how Highwater Tech. might be reached?

Thanks
	Volkmar
From: jag@decvax.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: 17 Jul 92 17:26 MDT
Subject: Re: CAM architecture implementations
Nf-ID: #R:news.chips.com:4121:1992Jul17.132638.7110@decvax.dec:-1665829608:001:1284
Nf-From: decvax.dec.com!jag    Jul 17 17:26:00 1992


In article <4121@news.chips.com>, venky@chips.com (Venkatesh) writes:

>We have developed CAM scsi software for our 5087 host adapter
>that supports hard disks,tape drives and cd-rom's on a variety
>of os platforms that include netware 286/386, various flavours
>of xenix/unix and dos. I'd like to know the various suppliers/
>developers of CAM software that exist in the market today,
>specifically those of the X3T9.2 CAM committee members, and
>their product details. I'd appreciate any help in this
>regard.  

    Congratulations !

    Our group in our OSs have replaced our old SCSI subsystem with one
completely designed using the CAM standard.  We have two kits available
for RISC/ULTRIX, and another on the way.  The subsystem is also in our
next OSF releases, both Alpha and RISC.

    What type of product details are you looking for ?

Note:
    I will be at the ANSI SCSI meetings all next week, if you have any
interest in "product details" I will be back reading comp.periphs.scsi
at the end of the month.
-- 
John A. Gallant                                jag@zk3.dec.com
Software Engineer - OSF Engineering Group
Digital Equipment Corp. (603) 881-2472

        In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no
        power of judgment.
    Marcus Cicero

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b and Fujistu driver problems
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:40:35 GMT

neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.004024.20070@picard.agames.com> yaturner@picard.agames.com (D'arc Angel) writes:
>> I just upgraded my controller from an Adaptec 1522 to a 1542b (thank you
>> Windows NT) and I have encountered a problem that did exist before. If
>> I don't use the disk for a while (about 5-10 minutes), the first time 
>> I access it, it recalibrates the drive. This is very reproducable, any
>> ideas, suggestions ??

>You're not, by chance, confusing this with the Fujitsu doing it's own
>recalibration are you?  Every Fujitsu disk driver I have ever seen does
>recalibration on it's own.  Just a thought.

  Can somebody explain what recalibration does and why it is necessary?
My Fujitsu drive makes funny noises when it's not being used
periodically as well.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jeng@ipanema..bellcore.com (Fureching Jeng)
Subject: FAQ
Keywords: SWITCH, ON, OFF, :-)
Reply-To: jeng@ipanema.UUCP (Fureching Jeng)
Organization: Bellcore MRE
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:51:06 GMT

Is there a FAQ for this news group? If yes, does anyone know where I can get
it?


Thanks for any help.



FC
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Sun 3 HD Controller
From: hliao@zeuscalstatela.edu (Henry Liao)
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:58:35 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cal State University, Los Angeles
Keywords: sun3, scsi, controller

This message is posted for a friend.

I am looking for information about old hard disk controllers used in
Sun3s.  I have a Sun3/75M with a (MFM/SCSI?) HD and Adaptec controller.  

The controller died and took the Hard disk with it.  I had some spare
parts from another Sun3 and was able to get a new controller and HD
working with SunOS 3.2 .

But the primary app that this computer uses dates back to SunOS 3.0 or
earlier. Under OS 3.0, I get hardware addressing errors with the new
controller. ( Were there any changes in the controller to account for
these errors? )  The primary app also comes with a prebuilt kernal
that does not appear to be 3.2 . I am stuck with new parts and old
apps.

Does anyone know of any changes in controller types/models?
Is there a place/vendor that may have some old Sun3 controllers to
        sell/barter/donate to our University?

Below are some details on the HD controller.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Victor Quevedo
School of Natrual and Social Sciences
Cal State L.A.
vqueved@opus.calstatela.edu


---- CONTROLLER DETAILS ----------

The controller is a Adaptec: ( I am not sure of the Series or Model #)

There are some markings on the controller:

        ASSY 400106-00 REV G
        There is a ADAPTEC INC Chip# 404201-00 A  (1986)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.mac.market,comp.sys.sun.market
From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
Subject:  Bernoulli 90 MB Transportable + Cartridges for Sale
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 03:45:51 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I am selling a Bernoulli 90 MB Transportable cartridge drive + three cartridges.
The drive is about 6 months old.  

The Iomega Bernoulli cartridge drive is both faster and far more reliable than 
Syquest-based drives.  I've had it for 6 months, *I haven't experience
a single failure*.  The drive is a SCSI drive (built in terminator), but Iomega 
sells adaptors for PC parallel ports(*).  This is an extremely versatile drive.  
Each cartridge is large enough to hold a lot of archived information and the
fast access time makes it a painless drive to work off of.  The drive also comes 
with a built-in handle (for easy transporation) and a side stand.  The
drive head has a built-in cleaning system and all you need to replace is the 
air filter once in a while.  The cartridges last for 5 years at 40 hrs a week 
(MTBF is 60,000 hours), I've only used them somewhat sparsely for 6 months 
(<10 hrs a week).   The cartridges can withstand 100g's of force.

This is really a great drive, IMHO.  I used this drive off a year-old NeXTstation 
and it worked like a charm.

Right now, it retails for $700-800.  I am including 3 90 MB cartridges which retail
for around $150 each.

I'd like $850 for the package, but I'll gladly consider reasonable offers. 
Send me e-mail (anwar@cs.cmu.edu) or call me at 1-412-421-9779.


-anwar

(*) If you're interested in this option,  I'll call Iomega and get the details.
-- 
Anwar Mohammed                           Graduate Student
anwar+@cs.cmu.edu  (NeXTmail welcome)    School of Computer Science
Voice: +1 412 268 3043                   Carnegie-Mellon University
Fax:   +1 412 681 5739                   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: bdl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (brian.d.leshin)
Subject: AHA1542B and Sound Blaster Pro Problem
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:53:55 GMT
Keywords: SCSI SB Pro

I just replaced my ESDI hard disk and controller with an Adaptec AHA1542B 
SCSI host adaptor and SCSI drive in my 486/33 running DOS 5/Windows 3.1.
After reloading all the software apps from my backup, Windows fired up nicely,
including the .wav sounds. I started running into trouble, however, in
running some Sound Blaster games and applications; the games/apps would either
hang the system immediately, or run about 10% of the time if it was the very
first app the Sound Blaster encountered after an initial powerup. The
TEST-SBP.EXE file which came with the Sound Blaster also hangs the system
most of the time.

I've checked for I/O, DMA, or interrupt conflicts, but all of the cards seem
to have a unique interrupt, DMA channel, or I/O. I've also removed the Adaptec
controller and re-installed the ESDI controller, and everything is back to
normal. I have the latest ASPI4DOS.SYS (V3.0a) installed also.

Could there be some subtleties with the Bus Mastering and/or the Bus On/Off
times that I have to deal with? I think I have heard of other people with this
problem too.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

==============================================================================
Brian Leshin
AT&T Network Systems
bdl@cbnewsj.cb.att
(908) 580-4774
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From: dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: WHEN TO TURN OFF MY MACHINE?
Keywords: SWITCH, ON, OFF, :-)
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:42:49 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology



I've been wondering for a long time when is a good idea to
turn off my machine, and when should I leave it on.  For example,
if I know I won't be using it for a week, I usually turn it off,
but if I use it every day, I leave it on all the time.  What is 
better for the hard disks?  What is the minimum idle time for a
hard disk to be worth turning it off?  I have a 386-40, with 2
SCSI disks (200 and 600 MBytes), running UNIX SVR4, X11R5, etc.

Thanks!
Davor
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: ajchuah@mtu.edu ([*BARK*])
Subject: IN2000 and external drives..help me.
Keywords: IN2000 and external
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:54:59 GMT

	I've got a Always IN2000 SCSI Controller, a
Maxtor 7080S and a Seagate/Imprimis ST41600N.  I am 
currently linking these drives internally.  I have no 
problems but recently i tried linking the ST41600N 
externally.  When i booted my machine, the IN2000
would hang.  It would give me the Always BIOS and
it will seek for the external HDs but will never end.
The HD light keeps on but nothing else happens.  I also
tried removing both the HDs and using just the Maxtor 
externally.  This still doesn't work.  
	Overall, i can't get anything to work externally.
It all works fine internally.  I hope someone can help
me with this problem.  I'm sure someone out there has 
an Always IN2000 and has an external HD.  Could you tell
me what you did to make it work?  Thanx.



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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: dmason@uwaterloo.ca (Dave Mason)
Subject: Re: SMD <==> SCSI interface? (with answer)
Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
	<45dm#z+@Stollmann.DE> <rschuler.712165328@pv690d.vincent.iastate.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:04:41 GMT

Several people seemed interested in this.  The only reply I got was
from Frank Perdicaro <frank@contex.com> who sent me this address for
Highwater Designs:

	HighWater Designs Limited
	Saint George's Business Park Alstone Lane Cheltenham
	Gloucestershire GL518HF

I haven't yet contacted them, although I plan to.

	../Dave
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: ulfis@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden)
Subject: Info wanted on SuperMac's DataFrame
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:34:23 GMT

I have found two DataFrame (XP 40+40 and XP 20) in our junk box. Well, after
fixing the power supply they all worked great. When I looked more closely at
the controller board (it's a SCSI -> RLL disk (or some DOS disk) controller)
I noticed that there are two connectors for disk data bus (J3 & J4), and one
for the disk control (J2). From my experience with DOS-machines and disks, you
just connect another disk to J2 with some cables twisted and then the
controller can handle two disks. I tried, but it didn't work.

So, since the "junk box" didn't contain any manuals for the DataFrames, I'd
like to know if the configuration above is possible? (Yeah, I haven't thought
of how this controller should act from the SCSI side, maybe the two disks
would look as one since SCSI ID probably is unique for each controller...)

Can anyone give a short description of the jumpers on the controller board.
There are three groups of jumpers, W11 (I think) located near the SCSI
connector, W1 (bottom left) and W? (bottom right).

Funny, SCSI Probe (v 3.4) tells me that the bus is not terminated. Other SCSI-
tools says that the bus is fine. Anyone seen this?

Thanks!

Ulfis
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|  USENET:  ulfis@nada.kth.se
|  Royal Institute of Technology
|  Stockholm, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Maxtor Problems? (was Re: Adaptec + Fujitsu --> cold boot problem...)
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 06:10:08 GMT

In <1992Jul23.170317.17044@den.mmc.com> hobbes@spacemanspiff.den.mmc.com (Stephen Camp) writes:
| Many apologies on my previous article.  I apparently fouled up my 
| response posting in my news reader.  oh well.
| 
| Somebody else had recently said:
| >which worked for a couple weeks, then started coming up with "sector not
| >found" errors, even after re-low-level-formatting it.  The third drive
|                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
| Anyways,  can a low-level format screw a SCSI disk?  I thought that the
| way SCSI works, the AHA-1542A on board utility simply sent the SCSI
| command to the disk to reformat itself!  So how would this screw the disk?
| Or was the engineer wrong?

A low level format on a SCSI drive should only be needed if you are
changing the drive geometry in some manner.  Excessive bad blocks
usually indicate the drive is dying (except in rare cases where the
drive has been used with a bad power supply), so it seldom helps
there, for more than a few weeks.

However, any SCSI drive that has the reserved area overwritten
by a SCSI format command has buggy firmware.  The drive itself
controls how the format is done, not the host software.  The
reserved area is usually used for saved parameters, bad block
tables, and more and more frequently, the 'real' drive firmware,
which can be reloaded in various ways, with just minimal functionality
in a PROM on the drive.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: d_agc@c1.nkw.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: 3480 SCSI device - naive user question
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:29:32 GMT
Organization: Natural Environment Research Council

Would anyone out there have experience of SCSI 3480 tape cartridge
drives and Unix (preferably Silicon Graphics systems) ? If so would you
be willing to talk/exchange e-mail with a colleague who has been having
a great lack of success getting one to talk to the other ?

He's not a SCSI expert (neither am I) just someone who interested in
buying a SCSI 3480 drive, plugging it into a Silicon Graphics Indigo
and using it without further ado. Alas, things turn out not to be so
simple. He's been through a drive from Cipher which had poor i/o
performance ( max 70kB/s ) and now has a Fujitsu drive which while
giving better performance doesn't work with the Indigo but does work
with a Sun IPC.

If you think you might be able to offer some words of wisdom please
mail me and I'll pass your mail on.

Thanks in advance,
			Alan Cox
			NERC Computer Services
			Natural Environment Research Council

			A.Cox@unixa.nerc-swindon.ac.uk
From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b.  HEEELLLLPPPPPP!
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:37:18 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Jul29.205507.21143@adaptx1.UUCP>, neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
 writes:

>Have you tried the bus master test located at dc00:9?  If this fails,
>then the motherboard will not support an ISA bus master board.
>---
>
>                       Roy Neese
>                       Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
>                       UUCP:   convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
>                       Inet:   neese%adaptex@cirr.com
>
If I try this test and it fails, what does that mean?  That I should get a new
card or is there some way to disable Bus Mastering.

                                                Stacy John Behrens
                                                *===)-------------

                                                
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: ajchuah@mtu.edu ([*BARK*])
Subject: Adaptec 1542b question
Keywords: Adaptec 1542b
Reply-To: ajchuah@mtu.edu
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:27:32 GMT


	I thought i'd just ask this question since we are in
to this question on the Adaptec pricing.  Does anyone know
or has anyone been able to get the Adaptec 1542b card to work
with more than 1G drives?  I called Sound Electro Flight 
a couple of days ago and they said the Adaptec 1542b does
not support drives above 1G.  If the Adaptec 1542b does
not support drives above 1G, what happens when i give it a drive
which is above 1G, in DOS that is.  Does it not recognize the
drive at all or does it just ignore the rest of the space?
	I am looking to buy the Adaptec 1542b because it has 
drivers to go with OS2.  Anyone knows of any known problems,
major problems so far?  Or any problem which will get this
configuration sticky?  I was also told that Adaptec cards
have a sort of version or BIOS version.  Anyone knows what the
latest is?  Or what version i should get?  
	All replies welcome.  Thanx in advance.



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From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: WHEN TO TURN OFF MY MACHINE?
Keywords: SWITCH, ON, OFF, :-)
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:40:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Jul28.223237.28954@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>It depends on whether you want the machine to take a lightning hit?
>Actually there is a great debat over this, and I'll cover it later if I
>get enough requests.  I'm too tired.

I hope you also unplug the machine, since lightning doesn't really care much
about whether the machine is on or not.  Might even wanna put some distance
between the plug and the outlet, I've heard stories (not sure if they're true
or not) about the lightning just kinda hopping the air.

>My advice...

>	Turn it off.

I hope you also move your crontab jobs that occur at night into sometime
during the day so Unix can do its periodic housekeeping.  I hope you also
have a small drive so the constant power cycling won't hurt it *too* much
(small physically, not storage-wise).

It all comes down to whether or not you want to treat your Unix box like a
PC, or like a Unix box.  Sure, some people are better off turning the
machines off.  But giving blanket advice either way is bad, IMHO.

>The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
------
Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
------
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
		-- Herbert Prochnow


Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jfurlong@mipsuk.reading.sgi.com (John Furlong)
Subject:  Adaptec ASPI4DOS.SYS/ASPI2DOS.SYS
Keywords: 1522 adaptec aspi2dos aspi4dos
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:35:07 GMT

I have a 386 box with an adaptec 1522 controller and Archive 150MB tape drive running DOS 5.

Basic setup works fine and using Sytos plus backup software I can stream back and
forth to the tape.

Working in a Unix environment I want to get a Unix compatible tar running so I got a copy
of GNU tar off the net and installed it. Actual file I pulled was ASPIBIN, which is GNU tar
for the adaptec 154x controllers.

The basic functionality works. I f I attemp to read/write to the tape it goes through all the correct
motions of positioning and trying to read/write. But it won't actually do any reading/writing. The
aspi2dos device driver returns an error code.

Does anyone have experience of what I'm trying to do ? I think there is some difference in the ASPI4DOS
and ASPI2DOS that is upsetting things. Anyone know the difference in these 2 drivers ?

I've only just started down this route. If anyone has been there and done it it could save me a lot
of hassle.

Any help appreciated.



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