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From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Seagate Technical Support Numbers
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 12:09:49 GMT
Organization: SUGS

Once again, for those of you that missed it in the past, here are
some numbers you may be interested in...

Here are the numbers for Seagate's Technical Support.

SeaBOARD - Bulletin Board System available 24 hours.  Use 8 data
           bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (8-N-1).

   USA/Canada  408-438-8771    9600 baud*

   England     44-62-847-8011  9600 baud*

   Germany     49-89-140-9331  2400 baud*

   Singapore   65-292-6973     9600 baud*

   Australia   61-2-756-2359   9600 baud*

   * - Maximum baud rate supported.

SeaFAX 408-438-2620

   Use a touch-tone phone to have information returned to you via
   FAX.  Available 24 hours.

Technical Support Fax 408-438-8137

   FAX your questions or comments 24 hours.  Responses are sent
   between 8:00AM and 5:00PM PST Monday through Friday.

SeaFONE 408-438-8222

   Provides recorded information 24 hours or talk to a technical
   specialist between 8:00AM to 5:00PM PST Monday through Friday.

SeaTDD 408-438-5382

   Using a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, you can send
   questions or comments 24 hours or have a dialog with a
   technical support specialist between 8:00AM and 5:00PM PST
   Monday through Friday.

No, Seagate Tech Support is not available via the net yet.

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Hale Landis                           Santa Cruz, CA USA
408-423-4017          -or-                  408-439-2443
landis@sugs.tware.com -or- hale_landis@notes.seagate.com
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From: hardgrov@pilot.njin.net (Roy Hardgrove)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Great SCSI Drive BUY!!!!
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:45:20 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


For anyone interested in obtaining a great deal on an excellent drive
(at least as far as I can tell so far), call HITECH at 1(800)922-2554
and ask for Ron.  I recently purchased a 200MB Rodime SCSI drive for
$299.00 ($1.42/MB!) and they provided same day shipping.  All told the
drive arrived at my door the next day with a 16-bit Future Domain
Controller w/o floppy support, mounting kit (as it is a 3.5" drive),
cables and instructions (although they were a little.....sketchy) for
$379.00.

Ultimately what proved to be the greatest asset of dealing with
HITECH, aside from Ron's accomodating nature, was the knowledge of
their tech-support guy - Tom.  He stepped me through the proper
installation and had my new SCSI drive running along side my Seagate
ST-251 in less than 3 minutes!  All told, they are a terrific outfit
who have definitely earned my trust despite my initial reservations of
dealing with:
	1). A California based mail order company
	2). A Company that had prices that seemed too good to be true.

Calling and placing my order was one of the best things I ever did for
my system.  Windows really likes the SCSI transfer rate, and the
access time is pretty good.  For $379.00 I am very, very satisfied.
For those looking for more storage, they had a 330MB Hewlett Packard
drive (SCSI) for around $520.00!

Just thought I would share a good thing, since good things are
relatively scarce.

Roy F. Hardgrove
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the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the
horizon."
		- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From: sterbbs@sus.edu.eur.nl (B. Rozenberg)
Subject: Programmers help wanted
Keywords: Future domain
Organization: EUR
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:55:13 GMT

For a little project we are working on, we must send a SCSI-command to a
future domain controller. Nothing fancy, just like an 'Eject Disk' command
for the CD-ROM player.
 
However, although we're having no problem programming big projects in C,
we're having some timing problems with it. Our programmers staff doesn't have
enough knowlege of SCSI-states (command, Arb. and so on) to finish this
project.
 
Is there someone in europe (perhaps even in Holland) willing to help us out.
A reasonable fee is offered.
 
Bert Rozenberg

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From: hardgrov@pilot.njin.net (Roy Hardgrove)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: RODIME Help needed!!!!!!
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:26:21 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I am in desparate need of some info about RODIME
hard drives.  More specifically, I have recently
purchased the Rodime 3259T, which is a 210MB
SCSI drive.  Whan I posted an inquiry about an
Always Technology adapter, someone sent me a mail
with horror stories about RODIME drives:  he called
them "Rodents".  I have only had the drive for two-
weeks, and the rep assured me that a return for
another drive would be possible, but this drive was
such a great buy.  I would like to keep it, however if
there is a high probability of failure I will trade it in for
the Maxtor.  Someone please respond, and help me
find the best resolution for this "apparent" dilema.

Thanks for the help (in advance),

Roy F. Hardgrove
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wrong?  Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or
declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?"
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Test, ignore
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:27:59 GMT


-- 
Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect the
Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.
From: Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: ESIX 4.0.4 on > 1GB disk
Date: 20 Dec 92 15:43:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.sfBG5R30BwwwFjazVa
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Setup:

EISA 486DX50 with 16 MB, AMI BIOS dated 12/12/91
Adaptec 1542B (BIOS V3.10) (resistor pack removed)
Internal SCSI HDD Toshiba MK-538FB (1.2 GB formatted, 1172 cyl), ID 0
Internal SCSI Tape Drive Wangtek 5150ES (resistor pack installed), ID 2
External SCSI CD-ROM Drive Toshiba TXM-3301B (resistor pack installed), ID 4
ATI Graphics Ultra with the InPort Mouse
2 Serial, 1 Parallel, 1 Game Ports

I had previously ESIX 4.0.4 installed on 2 IDE hard disks, and it worked fine.
I've replaced the second IDE HD with a 1.2 GB SCSI HD, and although DOS 5.0 and
OS/2 2.0 would work fine with both disks (except Windows 3.1 when installed on
the SCSI HD), ESIX wouldn't recognize the SCSI HD.

So, I gave up using the IDE HD, and removed the IDE/floppy adapter from the
system. With only the SCSI HD in the system, DOS and OS/2 would work fine,
but ESIX wouldn't install.

I have formatted the disk from within ESIX, during installation, and I have
also verified the disk (BTW, I was told that the verify would take "no more
than 392 minutes" for a 574 MB partition; it took about 5 minutes).

Problem #1. I couldn't create a DOS partition larger than 32 MB from within
            ESIX.

I had to exit, and boot DOS from floppy; I created a 234 MB primary partition,
and a 352 MB extended (which became later an OS/2 HPFS partition).

I rebooted ESIX, created a 574 MB UNIX partition, and at the end of the
allocation, after "Is this allocation acceptable to you (y/n)? y", I've got
the following messages:

Warning: SD01: Incorrect partition 0, Err: 6dd0b005

Filesystems will now be created on the needed slices.
Creating the / filesystem on /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1

Warning: SD01: Incorrect partition 0, Err: 6dd0b005
Warning: SD01: Incorrect partition 0, Err: 6dd0b005

Disksetup: Unable to create filesystem on /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1
Disksetup: Bad File Number
Cannont create/mount the / file system.
Please contact your services representative for further assistance.

Problem #2. Does this mean that ESIX cannot be installed on a disk larger than
            1 GB?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Lucian
From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: RODIME Help needed!!!!!!
Date: 20 Dec 92 06:09:04 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

>|> I am in desparate need of some info about RODIME
>|> hard drives.  More specifically, I have recently
>|> purchased the Rodime 3259T, which is a 210MB
>|> SCSI drive.  Whan I posted an inquiry about an
>|> Always Technology adapter, someone sent me a mail
>|> with horror stories about RODIME drives:  he called
>|> them "Rodents".

I've had a Rodime RO5000S (5.25" 100-meg) in my Mac II (now a IIfx) for
five years.  Nary a failure.  It was up and running when the '89 Loma
Prieta earthquake hit, spun down when power failed, and spun up the next
day without any loss of data.

I do have two cautions to note about Rodime drives in general:

[1] Some of them (mostly the older ones, I believe) have some quirks in
    their SCSI implementation.  Allegedly, they were designed before the
    industry had settled on a standard for rapid byte-at-a-time hardware
    handshaking, and they used a different method than many other
    vendors.  For this reason, these older Rodimes will not work with
    the Macintosh "blind I/O" transfer mechanism - and I suspect that
    they will not work with SCSI-2 host adaptors.  They work fine with
    the Mac SCSI Manager's handshaking transfers, though.

[2] Rodime has withdrawn from the disk-manufacturing business... the
    parent company still exists, but only as a vehicle for patent
    licensing and revenues.  The chances of being able to get
    manufacturer service for Rodime drives (if something goes wrong with
    them) is probably very close to zero.

Issue [2] is probably the reason that there are so many 3.5" 200-meg
Rodime drives on the surplus market at very attractive prices - they are
orphans.
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From: ben@yenta.alb.nm.us (Ben Klausner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Exabyte 8200 Upgrade ROMs for sale
Keywords: Exabyte 8200 ROM sale tape drive
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:50:51 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department

I have an extra set uf upgrade ROMs to bring an Exabyte 8200 tape drive up
to the most current firmware level. These are original Exabyte ROMs (not
copies), and include a set of torx wrenches and an instruction manual for
opening the case and installing the chips. The ROMs cost $125 new from
Exabyte, I'd like to get $60 for these.

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From: choe@dirac.phys.washington.edu (In-Jerng Choe)
Subject: Re: ST01 won't work with 2 MFMs -- Summary
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:06:51 GMT

Thanks millions for all of you who sent me valuable info.

Here's short summary how I did (2 MFM + 1 SCSI disk)
1. Software (driver)
  st01driv.lzh
  available at garbo.uwasa.fi/source
2. Files need editing:
 equ.inc ---------
   SCSI_CARD_SEG EQU 0CA00h;  ROM Address set by jumpers
 subs.asm --------
   Change delay parameters in wait1ms according to your clock speed
3. Use "masm" to assemble.
4. ROM on st01 should be removed
5. Set the ID of the 1st SCSI disk to 0, etc.
6. Boot the system with "device=scsi.sys" in config.sys

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Need comments on seagate 1480 420M SCSI drive
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 23:37:05 GMT

In <1992Dec19.165647.3624@netcom.com> shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw) writes:
| 	I need some comments on seagate 1480 420M scsi drive. Is it a good
| and reliable drive when compare to others like maxtor , fujitsu?
| Thanks for any help.

Yes, it is a good, solid, and fast drive.  Some of the Maxtor drives
were faster, but there were some early (since fixed, from everything
I hear) reliablity problems, with the high performance versions.
We use it, and Sun has started using it also.

Don't know about the fujitsu, but they definitely have done some
pretty blatently bad things in their firmware over the years, in
terms of scsi spec violations; those may well be fixed.  To the
best of my knowledge, their 400MB drives were nowhere as high
performance as the 1480.
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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From: boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)
Subject: Mac and Unix partition on same SCSI?
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:37:49 GMT


Is it possible to have one Mac partition and one PC/Unix partition
on a SCSI disk? I have a small 240 Mbyte disk that I carry around 
and it would be nice if I could keep both Mac and Unix-files on it
on different partitions accessable from different systems.

The SCSI question is, does "SCSI" know anything about partitions or
is this only in the software that send the SCSI requests to it?

/kgb
--
Kent Boortz
boortz@sics.se
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From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: UltraStor 34F VL-BUS Fast SCSI 2 controller!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:59:49 GMT

Well, I finally received my Host Adapter and I'm very impressed
with it thus far.  First of all it elminated all the loading
problems I was having the the Adaptec 1542B.

I don't know how acurate Coretest is, but on the Adaptec 1542B
and my Quantum 240S I got a Hard Drive Tranfer Rate of 2.8 or
2.9 MB/Sec.  Ran the same test on my computer with the
UltraStore and wham!  over 8 MB/sec.  I brought the machine
home and added uspi4.sys to my config, rebooted and ran core
test again and KABOOM! over 25MB /sec.

These are raw data transfer rates and because of the Quantum 240S'
256K cache, the results of these benchmarks are bloated.
Using Norton 6's SI, I used to get hard drive transfer rates of
1.1MB/sec now I get 1.3 to 1.4 MB/sec.  So take it as you
will.

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From: gasman1@netcom.com (David A. Silva)
Subject: Adaptec 1542B bus timings
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:21:15 GMT


For those who have been wondering about SCSI bus timings with the 1542B,
I experimented with these using Coretest ( /b:32 parameter forcing block
transfer size to 32k ) - system is an ISA 486dx2/50 running the ISA bus
at 8 mhz. Minimum bus/on time that maximized transfer rates was 06
microsecs ( default for the card is 11 ). Best bus/off time for
maximizing transfer rates was 02 microsecs ( default for the card is 4
). Testing was done with a debug script provided by Adaptec on their
BBS. The script follows:

o 331 07         :This is the host adapter command for set bus on time
o 331 11         :This sets the value to 11 microseconds
o 331 08         :This is the host adapter command for set bus off time
o 331 04         :This sets the value to 4 microseconds
q                :This quits DOS DEBUG and returns to the DOS prompt

Editing the microsec values in this script and running them thru debug
makes it easy to test the card with the whole gamut of values.

Maybe others can post what values they found best on their systems,
along with the CPU on their system.

David
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From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: Wangtek 1.3Gb DAT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:54:50 +0000


I've just picked up a WangTEK (badged TTi CTS-4 plus, with firmware to
match) 1.3Gb DAT tape drive (no manuals) and was wondering if anyone could
help with a few questions:

1. Will it do 2Gb with a longer tape (90m?)

2. What size buffer does it use? Can it be upgraded?

3. Would the 'real' WangTEK ROM be an improvement? The current one seems
   to work OK.

Thanks,
Hugo

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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI->QIC02 adapter -- where can I get one
Date: 13 Dec 92 13:25:27 GMT
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs


I want to do the following:


+--------+     +---------+	 +----------+
| SCSI   |-----| Adapter |-------| QIC Tape |
|  BUS   |-----|	 |-------|  Drive   |
+--------+     +---------+	 +----------+


I know this can be done for MFM and ESDI hardrives, can
I get this adapter?  Where?  How Much?

_______________________________________________________________________________
Jay A. Snyder               jay@gdx         ...{uunet,vogon1}!compnect!gdx!jay
This is your Brain: (unix)              GDX-BBS (717) 737-3249 WorldBlazer
This is your Brain on drugs: (MSDOS)     Unix and MSDOS File areas + Xenix bins
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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Does a SCSI to IDE converter exists?
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:13:12 GMT

splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:


>Subject says it all. I know there are SCSI to MFM, and SCSI to ESDI
>converters, but what about SCSI to IDE?

There are several SCSI controllers available that emulate the IDE
interface by default, shifting into true SCSI command set processing
only after a special driver has been loaded. Mylex, Ultrastore and AMI
controllers come immediately to mind.
-- 
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From: korenek@ferranti.com (gary korenek)
Subject: Adaptec 1542b kit (with UNIX drivers?)
Reply-To: korenek@ferranti.com (Gary Korenek)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:41:46 GMT


Is there an Adaptec 1542b kit that includes UNIX drivers?

Specifically, I am interested in a 1542b kit with ISC UNIX 2.0.2
drivers.

I am aware of the Adaptec kits that have ASPI and network drivers.
But for UNIX (ISC UNIX)?

I saw a DTC SCSI board kit with ISC UNIX drivers in it, but I really
want Adaptec.

BTW, is it coincidence that Adaptec and DTC are both based in Milpitas
California?  Is Milpitas the 'home' of SCSI?  Is it something in the
water?   :-)

-- 
Gary Korenek   (korenek@ferranti.com)
Ferranti International Controls Corp.
Sugar Land, Texas       (713)274-5357
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Adaptec ASW-410 upgrade offer?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:23:43 GMT

In <wkulecz-151292082329@nl-wkulecz.jsc.nasa.gov> wkulecz@life.jsc.nasa.gov (Walter B. Kulecz, Ph.D) writes:

>Does anyone know four sure about the alledged ASW-410 (or is it ASW-1410)
>upgrade where you send the cover from the manual and $xx and get ASPI
>drivers that support CRROM?

>Is this fact or fiction?  If fact, what do we really get and for how much
>$$$.

It is fact.  I've gotten this on both the Adaptec support line and on
their BBS.  It is an upgrade to EITHER the ASW-1410 (which is what I
intend to upgrade, since I don't have ASW-410) or ASW-410 (and if you
have that, you must have ASW-1410, right?).  So far as I can tell, you
can still buy ASW-410 (the Adaptec driver set, which includes
CD-ROM and some other stuff, I think) and ASW-510 (the Corel SCSI
driver set, which includes CD-ROM, etc.).

The update includes the latest versions of ASPIEDOS/ASPI4DOS (3.1),
whatever the latest version of the other stuff on ASW-1410 are
(AFDISK, ASPIDISK), CD-ROM drivers (both the data driver and an audio
play utility, from what I understand, but the CD driver itself is
definitely there), and an 'easy install' installation driver.  The
update costs $29 (check payable to Adaptec) and takes the cover off
your current drivers or one of the ORIGINAL disks.  

The address is:

	Adaptec
	c/o Software Products Marketing
	691 South Milpitas Blvd.
	Milpitas, CA  95035

The package is called EZ-SCSI.  You might want to call Adaptec
Technical Support (1-800-959-7274, then follow the magic voicemenu) to
check, or log onto their BBS.  It is talked about in both places.  If
you don't have any current driver set (you didn't get your
AHA-154X/174X controller as a kit with the drivers included), you can
order this as a new package ($70?) by calling the same number and
going to the Marketing entry on the voicemenu instead of Tech Support
(you can't do the upgrade over the phone, though).

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