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- From: paulg@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Paul Gittings)
- Subject: Re: Help on CDC Wren hard drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.185013.5398@tpl68k0.tplrd.tpl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
- References: <1992Dec11.213719.9329@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 07:32:32 GMT
-
-
- In article <1992Dec11.213719.9329@leela.cs.orst.edu>, ridgwad@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Ridgway) writes:
- > Hello people, a friend of mine has several 5.25" format full-height CRC WREN
- > 94171-344 300 meg hard drives and I am interested in buying one to put on my
- > A500.
- [stuff deleted ]
- > a Supra SCSI interface with Series III v3.8a software. I have my Quantum P40S
- > configured as SCSI 0, the CDC as SCSI 1 and a QIC tape streamer as SCSI 4.
- > Operation of the Quantum and tape streamer remain normal. The tape drive is
- > internally terminated and I have pulled the resistor packs off both the
- > Quantum and the CDC.
-
- If the jumper settings in my previous posting didn't help here is something
- else to try out even if it does sound a bit weird. Change the order of
- the devices in the chain so that tape drive comes between the CDC and the
- Quantam, terminate the last disk drive and remove the terminators from the
- tape drive.
-
- I have the following setup; A2002, GVP Series II SCSI controller, 48MB
- Segate, Archive Viper tape drive and a Wren IV. The Segate and the Viper
- are installed internally on the A2000. Originally I had problems when
- I first added the external Wren. I had no problem accessing the Wren and
- the Segate but I got "reselection" errors when ever I would try to write
- to the tape drive. My setup before adding the Wren was
-
- GVP-segate-viper+
-
- Then when I added the Wren
-
- +Wren=GVP-segate-viper+
-
- + terminators
- = external
-
- I read the GVP manual and it said to remove all internal terminators
- when you have an external device (no it didn't make sense to me either).
-
- +Wren=GVP-segate-viper
-
- Doing this resulted in the tape and the segate working fine but the Wren
- didn't show up at all. However, after swaping the internal setup so that the
- Segate became the last devicein the internal chain and putting back in the
- terminators the system came up fine.
-
- +Wren=GVP-viper-segate+
-
- Any ideas? And what other setups (terminator wise) do people have who use
- GVP SCSI controllers?
-
- Cheers,
- Paul Gittings
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