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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Fujitsu drives are HOT !!!
Keywords: fujitsu
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:05:33 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

zeglins@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gordon W. Zeglinski) writes:

>Having been messing around inside a PC today, I had the opertunity to
>check out the temperature of a fukitsu M2263?? 640 Mg drive.  The drive/PC

I have a pair of Fujitsu 2263 drives here -- and like you say they
run very hot --

it's been in the 90's the last couple of days -- and the drives are
in a 486/50 box so I can assume the temp in the machine is at least
another 20 degrees -- and the drives keep running --




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keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: cees@fwi.uva.nl (Cees Bol)
Subject: Sony exabyte tapes
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:35:27 GMT

Hi there,

I have a question about exabyte tapes. We normally use the Sony P5-90MP
tapes for our exabyte tape units. No problems about that.
A few months ago a read a article about the Sony P6-120MP tapes. There was told
that Sony changed the manufacturing techniques on the P6-120-MP to introduce
deliberate faults into them so that they cannot be used for data any more.
The only ditinction in the packaging is a tiny "F" following the MP on the
outer label. The reason for that is to buy the Sony data-grade tapes 
(which costs like twice as much).
Does anybody know what Sony has done with the manufacturing technique of the
Sony P5-90MP tapes? The same nasty trick as the P6-120MP tapes?
And if so does anybody know a good alternative.
Thank you fot the answer.

Cees Bol, cees@fwi.uva.nl
From: gbcacm@ccs.northeastern.edu (grater boston chapter of the acm)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542A, ASPI4DOS.SYS, and Windows...
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:25:02 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <25AUG199212551340@rigel.tamu.edu> kbm8572@rigel.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:
>
>	I have an Adaptec 1542A controller in a ISA machine connected
>to a Quantum ProDrive 80MB and a Maxtor 120MB.  I'm using the ASPI4DOS
>driver (Ver 2.1) and seem to be having all sorts of problems with
>Windows.  Is there a newer version of this driver?  If so where?  Are
>there known problems with the 1542A and Windows (or OS/2)?
>
>	Also, what is the difference between the 1542A and the 1542B?

For answers to these questions, call Adaptec Bulletin Board at (408)
945-7727; both documents and upgrades are available on-line.
From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: WANTED: TAR for MS-DOS SCSI cards 
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 04:54:16 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <78641@ut-emx.uucp> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu writes:

  > I have a TDC3600 that reads QIC-80's, I think.

Nope, it doesn't.

QIC-40 and -80 is the standard "floppy" streamer format, using
cartridge types DC2000, which are about half the size of the DC6000
cartridges.

All other QIC formats I know of (-11,-24,-120,-150,-320,-525,-1000)
require the large DC6000 (DC9000) cartridges. Devices built for these
formats do not accept small cartridges for mechanical reasons.

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From: uyeno@meetng.enet.dec.com (Alice Uyeno)
Subject: SCSI BBS number
Reply-To: uyeno@meetng.enet.dec.com (Alice Uyeno)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:31:56 GMT


In a previous posting, there was a number listed for the SCSI BBS.  The correct number is  719-574-0424
From: gbcacm@ccs.northeastern.edu (grater boston chapter of the acm)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: NEC CDR-74/84 CDROM with Adaptec 152x (or 154x)?
Keywords: CDROM NEC SCSI ADAPTEC
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:03:12 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <p94vroc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> jegm@esd.sgi.com writes:
>Has anyone got the NEC CDR-74/84 CDROM working with ASW410 and
>an Adaptec SCSI card (152x or 154x)?

We have NEC CDR-84 working with Adaptec 1542B and ASW-410.  Seems to be OK,
although it took 2 weeks of constant calling NEC and Adaptec to find out we
needed ASW-410 (contrary to what it says on Adaptec's packaging materials).
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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Quantum 425S Physical layout
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:36:51 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Ask the drive.

--Tim Smith
From: kamil@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Kamil Maheshwari)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Sequential Access (Tapes) Testing methodologies?
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:01:40 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


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I have need for compiling various methodologies for testing a Seq.
Access Device (Tape Drieves are most common examples) I would like
to know in particular from the people who may be using Adaptec dev.
systems on PC's. Also, have you thought about testing ABORTs and 
PARITY for such devices?

On the similar note, does anyone know of a SCSI development system
and a host machine which could/will support more than 10 MB/sec xfer 
rates and possibly keep about 5 devices streaming?

I would summarize all responses. Please e-mail me your response at
kamil@alumni.cs.colorado.edu     ******************************

thanks a bunch in advance. kamil.

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From: elberson@bnr.ca (Edwin Elberson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: ST01 with SCO Xenix ??
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:09:37 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.

Greetings,

I have an ST01 SCSI host adapter and a SCSI drive that I'd like to use with SCO
Xenix. What I need to know is:

1) Is this possible? (offhand I don't see why not, but I know very little about
   SCO Xenix)

2) Does SCO Xenix come with everything I need to get the drive installed
   (formatted, partitioned, etc...) - i.e. device drivers, instructions...?


The reason I'm asking such questions is that the system I want to put this on is
4 hours from where I am, and before I drive over there, I'd like to know if this
is going to work out. BTW, the system is a 386/33, if that makes a difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ed Elberson
elberson@bnr.ca
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.scsi:4344 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:14799
From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum PRO-105S problem
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:32:14 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

Hello.

       I have two Quantum PRO-105S SCSI drives (3.5", 105 Meg) that I have been
using for about a year.  They have worked well for me until recently.  I had been
using them on two separate controllers (1 on the GVP Combo and 1 on the A2090.)
When I put both drives on the GVP Combo, I started getting weird drive errors and
SCSI 'unexpected status' errors.  I remembered something from the net about some
Q drives not working properly when more than 1 was on the SCSI bus, so I called Q
Tech Support.  The guy there said that there is no such problem with these drives.

Well, I don't know what the problem is, but when I put the drives back on separate
controllers, all seemed to be well again.  Does anyone out there have the real
story on this problem?  Is there a fix?   Could it be the GVP Combo's fault?  I
really would like to put both drives back on the Combo, if I can get it to work
reliably.

P.S.  Before I get tens of letters about termination, please trust me when I say
that the SCSI bus was properly terminated.  (I've connected SCSI devices many
times.)

                                  Thank you,

                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
From: tomc@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Tom Carney)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:24:43 GMT
Subject: Re: old hard disk drive
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi

Per the South Texas BBS hard drive listing:

Micropolis 1325

8 heads
1024 cyl
17 sectors

That however totals closer to 70mb than 85. 


Good luck 

Tom Carney
From: fsgreen@.lerc.nasa.gov (Doug Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Quantum Prodrive 210S Failures
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:30:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: eagle.1992Sep1.193053.6640
Distribution: usa
Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion
Originator: fsgreen@bart

Howdy,

Sorry if this is a repost - I didn't see it come through from last week.

I am trying to determine if what we have experienced is an isolated incident
or if we should be worried.

We have purchased a total of 15 Quantum Prodrive 210s drives from Sun in Sun's
"Desktop Storage Packs".  So far, within 2 years, 3 of them have died.  The
platters spin up, but the heads "seek" back and forth across the drive,
clunking as they hit their internal stops (not the case I've torn one down
and checked).

We called Sun and told them that we are up to a 20 percent failure rate and
asked if they had any record of a bad lot of these drives.  After much run-
around, I was told no, no record of high failure rates, no engineering
change orders issued.  I was told that if we were to put our ELC's under
hardware maintainence, maybe they could fix the ones that have died.  No one
I talked to at our local Sun office thought a 20 percent failure rate was of
undue concern.

Right after I talked to Sun, a friend and administrator told me that he had
just lost a Quantum Prodrive 210s with the same symptoms.  I don't know the
age of his drive.

Having no luck with Sun, I tried to dig up a number for Quantum.  I got a
long-distance number which I called.  It got me a touch-tone switching
system with a couple of choices, none of which were technical support.  It
referenced a 900 number if the choices offered weren't applicable to the
question.

My questions for the net:

  Has anyone else had any problems with the Quantum Prodrive 210s?

  For anyone who had problems with the drives, how did you resolve it (other
    than hardware maintainence)?

  Does anyone else find it annoying and insulting that Quantum makes it very
    difficult to get information other than formatting and ordering directly
    from them?

Please email replies and I will summarize if asked.

                      Doug Greenwald
                      ICOMP - System Administrator
                      NASA Lewis / Case Western Reserve University


-- 
Doug Greenwald                       fsgreen@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov
Sun System Administrator             (216) 433 5965
ICOMP, NASA Lewis Research Center
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: WANTED: tips and driver code for 33C93A SCSI chip
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:29:36 GMT

In <BtpJ5r.Iqq@world.std.com> sja@world.std.com (Stuart J Adams) writes:

| We are in the process of writing a SCSI driver for a WD/Am33C93A
| chip. I am looking for any tips as well as example code if anyone
| has some. Our host processor is an 68HC11 but we will most likely
| be using C.

Try contacting one of the WD distributors (like Wyle), and ask
for the App notes.  They'll help a lot, particularly in handling
some of the 'unusual' cases.
--
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
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: rogerb@pisco.esd.sgi.com (Roger Brown)
Subject: Re: 1542B and Maxtor 8760S
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:18:27 GMT

Thanks to all that responded to this post.  

To summarize, it looks like the 8760S needs to have jumpers installed
on JP14 and JP38 to start when power is applied.
From: pdenize@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Info wanted on ST157N
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:12:37 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


Hello all,

I have a question about a Seagate ST157N SCSI hard disc. I would like to know
what the power supply requirements are for this drive as I have a chance of
buying second-hand one. I'll need to get a PSU for it, as it is an internal
drive and I will have to use it as an external drive.

I have found out that it uses 9W of power but I really want to know how much
current it draws on the 5 and 12 volt rails.


Thanks in advance,
Jason Howat c/o Paul Denize.


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Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato                         phone: ++64 7 8562-889
Hamilton                                                          Ext 8743
NEW ZEALAND                                   fax  : ++64 7 8560-135
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: CDROM drives that handle sync negotiation
Organization: CITEC
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:28:07 GMT
Summary: Are there any?
Keywords: sync negotiaition CDROM


	Are there any CDROM drives that handle synchronous negotiation by
the controller? I have an Adaptec 1542B here at work with the usual
collection of Quantum HD & Archive 2150S tape drives running sync.
negotiation at startup. I have heard rumours that there are a number of
CDROM drives that dont handle this well. I'm running Dell 2.1 (Soon to be
2.2) BTW.


	Cheers,

	Stephen
From: acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: multi-disk CD-ROM drive
Date: 31 Aug 1992 16:25:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View CA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
NNTP-Posting-Host: grendal.corp.sun.com

In article <wWVAr*PU0@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> Pioneer, Sony, and others sell various versions of multi-disk CD players.  Does
> anyone sell a SCSI CD-ROM multi-disk drive?  I would like one compatible with
> my Pioneer 6 disk CD player, but another version would be ok.  If these are
> available, where and how much?


Funny you should ask...

Pioneer Communications sells just such an animal.  The list price is
somewhere around $1200, but I have seen a number of mail order houses
selling it for several hundred less.  Pioneer is also just starting to
sell a faster version where the motor spins four times faster giving a
much faster average access time and much faster data transfer rate.
(Something like 280ms aat and close to 600kb per second transfer.)

You can call Pioneer's main US office at (408) 988-1702.


						Andrew MacRae
From: mkaschke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Martin Kaschke)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Future Domains Phone Number Needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:00:28 GMT
Reply-To: mkaschke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Martin Kaschke)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


    Well, if anyone could E-mail me FUTURE DOMAIN'S Telephone number,
I would appreciate it.  They are NOT in the 1-800 directory, I already
tried that!  Thanks in advance,
				  |\/|artin
From: gumby@motoman.pnl.gov (Jim Barbuscia SE Richland WA.)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSU DRIVERS
Keywords: (forwarded message)
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:33:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Sep1.223358.28523
Reply-To: gumby@motoman.pnl.gov
Organization: Battelle Pacific N.W. Lab's


    Where can I find information on writing my own scsi target drivers for SUN-OS?
The specific project is to be able to talk to a Camac crate controller (a data 
acquisition device). Examples would be very valuable. 
Thanks, KD Steele
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: Re: Novell 3.11 + Bustek EISA + 1.2 Gb SCSI
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:23:56 GMT

k@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Kao) writes:

>
>EISA Busloading Problems on Vectra 486/25/25T/33T PCs
>
>
>PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
>
>Vectra 486/25/25T/33T units fail when configured with certain EISA
>cards in slots 8, 7 or below and ALSO have other EISA cards in slots
>1 or 2.
>
>Failures have been observed with the following combination of
>cards in:
>
>   Slots 1 and 2: Either an EISA 1740 SCSI HBA, an HP EtherTwist LAN
>                card, or a Madge Token Ring LAN card, AND...
>
>   in Slots 7 and 8: An EISA 1740 SCSI HBA or an EISA Racal LAN card.
>
[ the other text describing cause of problems and solution deleted. - NB. ]

Thank you for this valuable info, at least for me.
I will get an (no-name) EISA system next week and an 1742 SCSI-controller.

Can you tell whether the 1740 or the 1742 (or even both) are one of those
out-of-spec EISA-boards ?
It is not very important for me to know that now, because I can avoid
conflicts with other EISA boards by chosing you solution. I just have
2 EISA boards (SCSI and VGA) in the system, but I may add more, later.

Thanks again for this info,

Norbert.
-- 
Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch   UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt
-- 
Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch   UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs
From: erle@wpi.com
Subject: SCSI Floptical questions
Followup-To: erle@wpi.com
Originator: erle@utdallas.edu
Organization: Workstation Products, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:02:04 GMT

Greetings,

I am specifying a floptical drive to replace a 720K 3.5" floppy.

Does anyone have any experience with flopticals that they
could share with me? I have seen the literature on the drive
made by Insite Peripherals. The media seems to come from at
least 2 sources, 3M and Maxell.

Are the drives second sourced?
Are there any other alternatives that I should consider?
How reliable are they?
Any problems with interchanging media between drives?
Any special SW problems? I am working with a proprietary real time OS
and a SCSI interface.

Any other questions that I should be asking?

Please email to me and I will summarize.

Thanks,

Erle

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Erle Mote                                            erle@wpi.com
Workstation Products, Inc.                    phone (214)669-9587
322 Meadowlark Drive                            fax (214)669-8550
Richardson, Texas 75080

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Erle Mote                                            erle@wpi.com
Workstation Products, Inc.                    phone (214)669-9587
322 Meadowlark Drive                            fax (214)669-8550
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: AMI EISA SCSI Cached Controller - Experience?
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:59:42 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

In the case of OS/2 v2.0, no more than 2 megabytes can be assigned by
the OS to caching. Use of a caching controller would permit the use of
more memory on the controller for caching and no main memory for
caching (possibly an advantage if your machine recognizes no more than
16 meg).
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
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: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 03:36:13 GMT

In <p98ka4o@zola.esd.sgi.com> rogerb@pisco.esd.sgi.com (Roger Brown) writes:

>Thanks to all that responded to this post.  

>To summarize, it looks like the 8760S needs to have jumpers installed
>on JP14 and JP38 to start when power is applied.


Yes, but leaving one of them off gives you a neat trick that comes in
very handy for me.  Sorry I don't have the docs so I can't tell you
which one it is, but they are roughly this:

One can be left off to require a "start" for spin-up, and
The other can be left off to delay spin-up for a period of time
determined by the SCSI-ID of the disk.

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.

-- 
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chip@osh1.OSHA.GOV     | supported or even generally accepted by OSHA. :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jegm@cody.esd.sgi.com (Jim Morris)
Subject: NEC CDR-74/84 CDROM with Adaptec 152x (or 154x)?
Keywords: CDROM NEC SCSI ADAPTEC
Reply-To: jegm@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 18:14:15 GMT

Has anyone got the NEC CDR-74/84 CDROM working with ASW410 and
an Adaptec SCSI card (152x or 154x)?

I have heard reports that this may not work well. (on the Adaptec BBS).

Thanks


-- 
Jim Morris, Email: jegm@esd.sgi.com  Voice: (415) 390-5136
From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Amiga 1000 with MicroBotics StarDrive
Summary: Problem talking to Seagate st-277n
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:59:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19886
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Would anyone with information or experience installing this controller
with any drives please send e-mail.  I have a few short questions.

Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: ross@insci.com (ross andrus)
Subject: Adaptec 1540b jumper - Auto Sense disable ???
Organization: INSCI Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:31:28 GMT
Originator: ross@augie

Hello world

  We've been having problems with a QIC tape on an SCO 3.2v4.0 system with
  a 1540b board. After some hassles, SCO recommended that we plug jumper
  J6.5 - Auto Sense disable. This smoothed out the problems with the tape,
  but caused severe problems for our locally generated device drivers. Without 
  breaking down and calling the SCSI Busters (who ya gonna call?), it looks 
  like we're getting notified of a check condition, but the sense key, etc.,
  is not getting back to us.
  
  So, my question: does `Auto Sense disable' really mean what I think it 
  means - to not collect sense buffer info whenever there is a check condition?
  This seems like an option that few would use... 

  I'd be glad if someone can clarify this a bit.

  regards

  ross andrus


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